The Lord puts us through different circumstances in life so that we grow closer to Him. And, what is better than being close to Him? Have you experience being in God's presence? Prayer does just that. It transports us from the natural, the physical to the invisible, the spiritual.Faith is seeing and touching the spiritual realm.Prayer takes you there. Faith and prayer go together. When faith stops to pray, it stop to exist. Faith does what is impossible, because it brings God into the picture, and for God "...nothing is impossible." E.M. Bounds, who wrote great books on prayer, wrote once: "Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer move God."
In the latter days, the faith of many will diminish. This is affirmed by our Lord Jesus when He said: "When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8. We know by reading passages such as 2nd Thessalonians 2:3 that a time is coming and it is now where people will abandon and even deny their faith. So, we need to pay attention to our walk in Christ and make sure that our faith is growing by exercising it through prayer.
2nd Peter 1:5 says "... giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to your virtue knowledge" Peter knew that the ground on which christian character was to grow was faith. The words "giving all diligence" makes it an urgent matter. He had experienced a moment in his life where he needed faith to continue. When Jesus was looking forward into Peter's future denial, He told Peter: "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desire to have you, to sift you as wheat; BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR THEE, THAT THY FAITH FAIL NOT." Jesus was interested in Peter's faith.
When our faith is gone, our spiritual life fails. Inject faith into your spiritual life by starting and maintaining a life of prayer.
