Kent Mattox: Thoughts For Today

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Thoughts For Today

We must never become too busy doing God’s work to pray. Not praying leaves God out of what we are doing, even if we are doing it with His Kingdom in mind. If we are too busy to pray, the enemy has in effect disarmed us. Prayer is our greatest weapon and should be relied upon to defeat every strategy and attack. The one area that we seem least prepared for is the attack on our prayer lives. Luke 18:1 tells us, “Men ought always to pray, and not lose heart.” As we diligently seek God’s will for our lives through prayer, we will see results. Don’t limit God through prayerlessness. Sit at His feet. Learn from Him. Seek Him through His Word. Let God Himself teach you to pray and bring you into a greater knowledge and understanding of Him. He’s ready to fellowship with you. Don’t keep Him waiting. One of the most difficult aspects of prayer is waiting for God to answer.

The waiting is in itself a very important part of the learning process and for most of us - the hardest. In our experience, God usually answers one of three ways: yes, no, or wait. Our perseverance during these times of waiting is what truly shapes our character and brings us into a total dependence on the will of God. Jacob’s experience in Genesis 32:24-32 is the perfect example of how we must persevere in our prayer lives. Verse 26 states, “and He (God) said, ‘Let me go, for the day breaks.’ But he (Jacob) said, ‘I will not let You go, unless You bless me.’” We have to wrestle with issues in prayer, trusting God to bless our faithfulness to seek His will for our lives. Ephesians 6:12 states, “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Verses 13-17 clothe us in our prayer armor as verse 18 expounds upon the need to pray: “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and being watchful to the end with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” If we have to wrestle, it is much better to wrestle with the things that are preventing us from getting to God than wrestle with God Himself. The only way to conquer these things is through prayer and laying hold of God’s strength.

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You have a very real destiny that your heavenly Father has planned specifically for your life. In this compelling book, Kent Mattox candidly writes about personal insights and revelations he has experienced in fulfilling the call of God in his life. The discoveries he made along the way, he believes, are not unique to one man’s experience. They represent every believer’s climb on the continual journey to the High Places of God. The surprising aspect of this material may be that it reads as though you could have written it yourself. The inspirational and motivational book was written to appeal to the believer, as well as to those who have not yet come to the knowledge of Christ’s deep and abiding love. Wherever you are in your journey to the High Places, this book will encourage you to maintain your focus and succeed in reaching the high call of fulfilling your destiny!

Running The Race

This seventy-day devotional was birthed from many of the revelations that God has encouraged and sustained Kent and Bev with as they have continued to run the race of faith. Their desire is that it will inspire you as well. The number seventy means completion of judgment and to enter into increase. Individually, the numbers seven and ten express different aspects of perfection and completeness. As God continues to further His Kingdom by revelation of His divine purpose and plan for you life apply these principals to your maturation process. These are qualities that we all aspire to : perfection, that we are maturing in Him and completeness, that in Him we are whole.