Do not say to your neighbor,
“Come back later; I’ll give it tomorrow”—
when you now have it with you.
-Proverbs 3:28
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’
-Acts 20:35
Most of us pray. Many of us pray earnestly. But though we often pray, we most often pray on only one side. We forget the other side.
You see, there are two sides of prayer.
One side represents asking prayer.
The other side represents answering prayer.
On one side, we pray to get blessed.
On the other side, we pray to be a blessing.
Today let’s pray from both “sides”.
That God would bless us.
And that He would bless us with the chance to be a blessing to others.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Amen and Amen. Thanks for the reminder. I like the way you put it - I will remember to pray “from both sides”- it can be so easy to be a little bit more focused on what we want from God. Thanks..