I am sure most of you remember the name Greg Frizzell. Over the past 6 years I have given away about 500 of his books. He writes about how to have a powerful prayer life, he also writes about holiness and daily cleansing, etc. I want to give you a little story taken from his book on prayer.
A huge high school student walked up to the football coach and told him that he wanted to play football. The coach was thrilled and said, "Son, I am so glad you want to play. We sure need a player of your size."Then the coach told the young man to be at practice the following day and assured him he would get a chance to play on the team. For the next three days, the coach anxiously watched for the young man but he never showed up for practice. About a week later, the student again came to the coach and said, ""Coach, I sure love football and I really want to be on the team." The coach said, "I'm glad to hear that but you never came to practice. Son, we really need you on our team but if you want to play ball, you must come to practice." The man assured the coach he would be at practice the next day. A whole week passed yet, the boy never attended a single practice. Later, the young man saw the coach walking at a distance and he yelled for the coach to wait up so he could talk to him. But rather than stopping, the coach just kept walking. The young man ran to the coach, got right in front of him and started to give him the all too familiar speech. As the boy proclaimed his desire to play, the coach suddenly interrupted him and spoke the following words: "No son, you really don't want to play football. I told you in order to play you must come to practice. The truth is, you had rather do other things than pay the price to be on the team. When you say you want to play, yet you won't come to practice, you are really just kidding yourself. Now excuse me while I go and coach the boys who are waiting at practice. You see son, they do want to play football."
Many of us make statements like, We need revival, we want to see God move and save lives. Oh, how we wish The Holy Spirit would move in, stir the hearts of our people. We need God to breathe life into our Church, etc. The truth is God says that if we cleanse ourselves and spend time in daily prayer with Him. He would send a mighty moving of His Spirit.
The question is not - does God want our Church to grow, Does He want us to see the lost come to saving faith. The question is; do we want to be apart of God's activity?
Are willing to pay the price? Are we willing pray the price? If we truly want these things, thing we must be willing to show up for practice and pay the price in consistent prayer. The place of practice for our spiritual life is spending much personal time with God in daily prayer. If we say we want to grow and yet we seldom show up for serious prayer, we are just kidding ourselves. God cannot teach you to pray if you refuse to show up for practice!
Please pray that our Church will be all that God wants it to be. Pray for a Spirit of Spiritual revival. Please pray that God will move in might and power this coming Sunday.
Prayerfully,
Bro. Clayton
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