PHANEROO~DEVOTION 9th February 2016 WATCH & PRAY Apostle Grace Lubega

[Colossians 4:2]; Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.

Pray, that is wonderful, but in the prayer watch also. Don’t just pray. It means that for every prayer to be a success, we must watch in the prayer. Many Christians do not watch, they just pray.

When the Bible says watch and pray that you may not fall into temptation, the Greek word for temptation, peirasmos, is translated not just as only trial but also affliction.  So it means, watch ye and pray lest ye become afflicted; watch ye and pray lest ye lose your job; watch ye and pray lest you become sick and die; watch ye and pray. Do you know why, sometimes the people who seem like they pray the most are the ones who are most afflicted? It is because they do not watch.

How do we watch? Watching means being alert and sensitive in prayer. How do you do that? It is very simple- by meditation. Many people pray but they do not meditate in prayer. The place of meditation in prayer is the word. As you meditate, the spirit of God starts to explain what you are meditating on because God can hardly speak to a man who doesn’t know how to meditate. The underlying principle of meditation is so that men may hear the voice and the place of the voice coming to your spirit is to explain the scripture and expound on it; that is revelation. It must work if it is revealed. Watching means meditating.

Excerpt from the sermon: PRAYER CODE 2 by Apostle Grace Lubega

God can hardly speak to a man who doesn’t know how to meditate.

Scripture Reference: Psalms 63:6, Matthew 26:41