When you are an athlete, the next level might be running an extra mile, swimming another 2 lengths of the pool or lifting a few more reps. For a salesperson the next level might be a few more calls or making that big deal that has been on your mind.
In our prayers there is also a next level. God desires our times and so wants to bless His children. Our series on prayer ended this weekend at The Community Fellowship, and I challenged our church to go to the next level.
My suggestion of the next level for our prayers is the use of a notebook for prayer lists and to write down our prayers. Have you ever noticed that what you write down you remember longer? When we do something different, something different will happen.
Get a notebook. We gave out spiral notebooks and have plenty left if you would like one. Come by the church or pick one up this coming Sunday, or maybe you already have one. Start using it. Write down your prayers.
Write the prayer list. That might be stuff on your mind, things people ask you to pray for or even the things going on in your life. Write down the verses that God brings to you and claim them in prayer. Write your prayers. Often when we put them on paper in written words, our prayers take on new life or strength or even simple allow us to even more of what God is doing.
Revelation 1:11 NASB
saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”
Revelation 1:19 NASB
Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things.
Just get a notebook and join me in writing your prayers.
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