Feeling Fabulous Friday: Healing Prayer

I have come to realize over the past few months that nothing has influenced my spiritual and physical healing more than prayer. Not the prayers of others for me (although those can be powerful and have been very much appreciated), but my own personal prayers. God honors our crying out. He honors us when we fall before Him and believe that He is our only hope and our only help in times of trouble. He doesn't want to be just one of our options...He wants to be our only option. I have learned that God moves mightily in our lives when we make Him our only option...our first choice.

In my morning devotion, I read these statements by Joyce Meyer...

"We struggle with situations in our minds and in our emotions, while we often fail to take advantage of the simplest solution there is: prayer. But worse than that, we then make perhaps the most ridiculous statement known to man: "Well, I guess all I can do is pray." I am sure you have heard that before and maybe you have even said it. We all have. We are all guilty of treating prayer as a last-ditch effort and saying things like, "Well, nothing else is working, so maybe we should pray." Do you know what that tells me? It tells me that we really do not believe in the power of prayer as we should. We carry burdens we do not need to bear - and life is much harder than it has to be - because we do not realize how powerful prayer is."

 Oh, how true that is! "All I can do is pray"...wow! I have learned that praying is the greatest and best thing that I can do in any situation! If I could only tell you all of the ways God has answered prayers for me over the last few months...both spoken and silent heart prayers! I am truly amazed at His faithfulness!

On this Feeling Fabulous Friday, I want to remind you that God's power is activated by prayer...so make prayer your first priority! You will not regret it!

"O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water."

                                                               Psalm 63:1 (NLT)

"Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results."

                                                                                   James 5:16 (NLT)

 "Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think."

                                                                                  Ephesians 3:20 NLT