They say,
Don't solve LAZINESS with prayer. If you don't work hard, you will spend the rest of your life shouting, "I RECEIVE IT!'
Well I say,
PRAYER IS GOD DESIGNED ACTUALLY.
INHERENT IN IT'S DESIGN, IS THAT IT MUST LEAD TO A DOING (AN ACTION). IT DOESN'T CRIPPLE YOU INTELLECTUALLY OR OTHERWISE.
JAMES 2:26 SPEAKS OF THIS ACTION.
MAN MUST STRICTLY FOLLOW THE DESIGNER'S (OR MANUFACTURER'S) MANUAL TO GET THE BEST OUT OF PRAYER.
JESUS THE CHRIST STRICTLY FOLLOWED THIS MANUAL, THAT WHAT YOU CALL "OUR LORD'S PRAYER" WAS BORNE OUT OF AN INQUEST BY HIS DISCIPLES – THEY SAID, "TEACH US TO PRAY".
THEY WERE INTRIGUED BY HIS ARDENT DEVOTION TO PRAYER AND THEY SAW HOW PRAYER SHAPED EVERYTHING, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM; INCREDIBLE TANGIBLE RESULTS IT PRODUCED. VOLUNTARILY, THEY HAD TO APPLY TO LEARN.
IT IS ALSO AN INCONTROVERTIBLE TRUTH THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS NOT A LAZY MAN, NOT NEARLY EVEN.
THOSE WHO CONTINUED AFTER JESUS LEFT TO HEAVEN, WERE NOT ALSO LAZY.
YOU CAN CHECK OUT THE LEARNED PROF, APOSTLE PAUL, WHO WAS INSPIRED TO WRITE MOST OF THE NEW TESTAMENT; HE WAS NOT A LAZY MAN AT ALL. HE OWNED A PRIVATE BUSINESS THAT EARNED HIM MONEY.
AND THE LIST GOES ON.
THE PROBLEM IS NOT PRAYER, THE PROBLEM IS PEOPLE NOT STAYING TRUE TO THE DESIGNER'S MANUAL ON PRAYER.
FACTUALLY, SO MANY PEOPLE "PRAY", BUT DO NOT PRAY ARIGHT. YOU CAN SEE AN EXAMPLE IN PSALM 78:18, PEOPLE ASKING(PRAYING TO) GOD FOR STUFF IN STUBBORNESS.
THEREFORE PRAYER IS ACTUALLY THE BEST SOLUTION TO LAZINESS!
NO HUMAN WHO PRAYS ARIGHT CAN EVER BE LAZY, IT IS JUST NOT POSSIBLE, IT DOESN'T EXIST IN THE MANUAL.
THAT IS WHY, AS A RULE, WE STRIKE A BALANCE TO LISTENERS BY NOT MAKING A BLANKET STATEMENT ABOUT PRAYER.
Thanks for granting me audience.
Shalom
