“Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don’t say, ‘I will endure this until I can get away and pray.’ Pray NOW-- draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God’s grace through prayer.” (My Utmost for His Highest-- by Oswald Chambers)
We can draw God’s grace like water from a well. Prayer is the bucket. The Holy Spirit is the pulley that enables us to draw this grace without getting exhausted.
If we are dependent on well water for our daily needs, we wouldn’t skip a day because we are busy. We would have to go to the well and draw water several times a day--whether we are thirsty and need a drink, or dirty and need to wash up; when we need to cook our food, or water our crops or livestock. Similarly, we must draw from God’s unlimited supply of grace several times a day, no matter what else is going on in our lives.
“God’s power is working in us. We use weapons of righteousness in the right hand for attack and the left hand for defense. We serve God whether people honor us or despise us, whether they slander us or praise us.” ( 2 Cor. 6:7-8 NLT)
When we continually, consistently, draw from God’s power, we have goodness at our disposal. We no longer have to use self-constructed weapons to attack the forces of darkness, or to defend what is right and true; For we are operating under God’s strength, wisdom and grace.
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