April 25

Judges 4:1-5:31, Luke 22:35-53, Psalm 94:1-23, Proverbs 14:3-4

Pray: Lord, I love the prayer of the Psalmist today “When I thought, my foot slips, your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.” Thank You Father that You watch our every step and You keep our feet on solid ground. Amen.

Read: In today’s Old Testament reading from Judges we see an interesting story of how the commander of the Canaanite army Sisera came to an unlikely death. He went into a tent owned by Jael the wife of Heber and while he was laying in the tent Jael took a tent peg and drove it into his head! Ouch! Deborah who was the prophetess and Judge over Israel at that time had heard from the Lord that Sisera would be delivered into the hands of the Israelites, they just didn’t know the way that it would happen. Often times we are asked to trust the Lord even if we don’t know the way the Lord will work on our behalf, no matter how strange it may be.

Edify: Even Jesus, when facing difficulty knelt down and prayed. He encouraged His disciples to pray that they not enter into temptation and then we read that He prayed with such intensity and agony that great drops of blood fell from Him as He sweat. Jesus modeled the passion and intensity in which we ought to pray to the Father. When we are facing trials that seem unbearable our only hope is to pray earnestly to a loving Father that hears our prayers!

Practice: Our practice should be to remember to go to the Father in prayer in every situation remembering that we are to pray with passion and intensity and not get caught up in the routine that we can sometimes turn our prayers into.