praying :]

hey y`all.
so i told a friend of mine, who was struggling with an issue on prayer, that i would do a devotion on it, so i looked back through my blog entries, and found it, and so ill post it again to help him out :] i really think prayer partners is a neat idea. maybe we should do that at youth group, just have one person that you can call & tell to pray for you & talk to about stuff :] anyway, here is that devotion:
prayer is the most powerful tool we have as Christians, its how we communicate with God! So, Matthew 21:22 says, "And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing ye shall recieve" which tells us that God will answer all of our prayers, but we have to believe in him. James 5:16 says, "Confess your faults one to another and pray for one another that ye may be healed, the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much" which tells us to pray for our friends and that the prayer of a righteous person is very powerful and effective. we should always be in prayer for our friends, and we've decided that me & ashley & candace & rachel are prayer partners so we get together and tell eachother what we need prayed for :]] i really like it. One more verse i read on prayer was Romans 12:12 which says, "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer" which is about more than prayer, but its a reallyyy good verse. we really do need to be joyful and not pessimistic. And even though we go through afflictions, we have to be patient, and God will get us through them:]]. and most importantly, we must be faithful in prayer. we have to believe with all our hearts that God will answer our prayers! try it :] get a prayer group together like we did, it really helps :]]
i love y`all!
God Bless!
- crystal jade