Daily Bible Verse for Today 17 November 2023, Friday
Read Daily Bible Verse for Today 17 November 2023 – Pray Without Ceasing (John 18:2) content taken from Come Ye Apart by J.R. Miller.
BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY: Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples. John 18:2, New International Version
MESSAGE: These words give us a glimpse of our Lord’s devotional habits. The deep quiet of the Olive garden was His closet. Here He had been wont to go for seasons of prayer. There were other places, too, which were sacred resorts to Him. There were mountain-tops, where He often spent whole nights in communion with His Father.
Our Lord’s example teaches us that we should spend much time in devotion. Some people manage to get along without much praying; but it is always at the expense of their spiritual life. Not feeding their souls, they grow very lean. There really can be no beautiful, strong, helpful Christian life without much closet work. Every tree has a root, which people do not see, which has no beauty, but which in secret, in the darkness, performs service for the tree, without which the tree could not live. What the root is to the tree, that is the Christian’s secret devotional life to the external and visible life which the world sees. We shall flourish and be fruitful in spiritual life just in proportion to the earnestness, the reality, and the intensity of our devotional life. A great deal of praying needs to go with a very little working.
Our Lord’s example teaches us also the importance of regular habits of praying. Some people say that praying should be spontaneous, and that stated times and places make it formal, and take the life out of it. But we are such creatures of habit that if we do not pray at regular times each day we shall very soon not pray at all. But if we always go to our closet at the same time, out devotions will become part of our daily life, and we shall never live a day without its moments of prayer. If our Lord’s holy life required regular habits of prayer and communion, much more do our broken, imperfect lives require the same.
READ MORE TOPICS: OPEN HEAVENS, OUR DAILY BREAD, IN TOUCH, SEEDS OF DESTINY, STREAMS OF JOY, JOEL OSTEEN, MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE, DCLM DAILY MANNA, UCB WORD FOR TODAY
