Join us this Thursday night for the last Men’s Fellowship Night of this season. Pastor Bruce Koczman from Jesus Fellowship Calvary Chapel will be our speaker. Dinner is served at 6:15 PM. Come and enjoy a great night of praise and worship, challenge from the Word and fun in the Activity Center. Call America’s Keswick for your reservation: 800-453-7942

Just Do It

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. (Matthew 7: 7-8 NIV)

I have found myself frustrated over the years thinking and verbalizing this: “Why is prayer such hard work?” Why have I been so frustrated in my prayer life?

I have collected and read dozens of books on prayer. I’ve looked for the right model, the right formula, the right method, so that I can pray effectively. The bottom line is that I can have the largest collection of books on how to pray – but in the words of Nike © – I need to JUST DO IT!

Rather than get so hung up on the right and wrong way to pray, figuring out the right position and posture for prayer, and trying to make sure I say the right things and not say the wrong things, God wants me to come to Him in childlike faith and just pray.

It’s really not as complicated as I make it. It isn’t about saying a prayer that will impress the Lord. Who am I kidding? He knows the real me. He knows when I am using “vain repetitions” or praying things I don’t really mean.

I am new on this journey – but I have made a commitment to myself – to move from reading and learning about prayer – to become a man who prays. I will make mistakes, I’m sure. But at the end of the day, it matters more to Him that I love Him enough that I want to spend time with Him at the throne of grace.

Lord, help me to keep it simple – JUST DO IT! Pray! Dr. Bill Welte is President/CEO of America’s Keswick

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Daily Bible Reading: Ezekiel 32-34

Think About This:Keep your life so constant in its contact with God that His surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as He likes.Oswald Chambers

This Week’s Verse to Memorize: But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much,  that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)  For he raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus. ⁷ So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredible wealth of his grace and kindness toward us, as shown in all he has done for us who are united with Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-7