Cgeneration devotional

When there is no vision of what you’re aspiring for, it becomes frustrating and it’s hard to set a guide for your life. But God has not called us to become born again for no reason. The purpose of becoming a Christian is not just so that we can go to heaven after we grow old and leave this earth. There is more to our Christianity than that. So what exactly should we become?

There are times when God not only says Yes, but He throws in lots of extras that we never even asked for! What do we need to do to get this kind of answers to our prayers?

Sometimes God says Yes in answer to our prayers but we need to wait for it. So what should we do while we’re waiting?

Sometimes God says Yes, but not in the way we expected it. So what do we do?

A lot of people pray to God halfheartedly without expecting that God will say a ‘Yes’ to their prayers. So what should be our expectation?

There are several ways that God answers our prayers but what if God’s answer is No?

Why do we want what we pray for? James 4:3 says ‘we ask and we don’t receive because our motives are all wrong’. So what should our motive be when we pray?

Sin is one of the major hindrances to prayer because when we are living in sin, God can’t even see us or hear us because His eyes are too holy to look at sin. So how can our prayers be answered?

A lot of prayers have no basis or no foundation and because of that, they are not answered. What should be the basis of our prayers?

Jesus said we should pray to God the father in His name. But do we understand the power we have in the name of Jesus?

God has told us to ask Him and He will meet our needs. But why do we pray and we don’t get answers sometimes?

For us to fast the right way, there are certain things that we must do.

There is a right way and a wrong way to fast. So today we’ll look at ‘how NOT to fast’.

just like when Jesus talked about prayer, he said ‘when you fast’ and not ‘if you fast’ which means fasting is something we are meant to be doing. So prayer and fasting are two things that go hand in hand

This is the reason why we pray!

But is it God that leads us into temptation?

Many people pray this prayer with their lips but not from their heart. So how should we pray for forgiveness?

This prayer means much more than what it says!

What does it mean to pray this prayer? So many of us recite these words without actually thinking about what God’s will is and with no intention of seeing to it that God’s will is done.

The second petition in the Lord’s Prayer is ‘thy kingdom come’. But what does this mean?

When we pray, the first thing is to acknowledge who we are praying to. Jesus said we should pray to God the father so we must approach God in faith as our loving heavenly father.

Jesus was teaching the disciples how to pray and He started by giving them tips or guidelines on what to do when they want to pray, Jesus talked about praying in secret and avoiding empty babbling. What do they mean?

Jesus said when we want to pray, we shouldn’t be like the hypocrites. Am I a hypocrite when I go to pray ??

Most of us wait till we have a problem or we are faced with a challenging situation before we start praying but those kind of prayers are not effective prayers. There is no ‘fire brigade’ approach to prayer. If we want to get results, we need to do the time!

Prayer has so many wonderful benefits but if we don’t pray, we will be losing out on so much that God has planned for us. So today we’ll be looking at various reasons why it’s important for us to pray.