I recently cleared an old bookshelf and found a booklet from the now closed Saint Joseph's Hospital in Queens where my uncle was in 2002. Several authors wrote it. Richard De Haan wrote this one. He refers to Psalm 55:17 "Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice."
He then writes:
"We sometimes forget that God may want us to be part of the answer to our own prayers. We expect Him to do everything, and then we sit back and do nothing.
We ask Him to bless the work of our church but offer excuses when asked to serve. We plead for loved ones to be saved, yet never speak a word f testimony to them. We earnestly intercede for people with serious financial needs, but we won’t dig deep into our won pockets eve though we have the means to help them. We ask the Lord to comfort and encourage the shut-ins and lonely, but we never go out of our way to pay them a visit or send them a note of encouragement.
Yes, God wants to bring our requests to Him, but many times He wants us to add feet to our prayers. Working often goes hand-in-hand with praying."
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