SETTING PRAYER TRAPS

"Take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." 2Co 10:5 NIV


SETTING PRAYER TRAPS


When we read the verse, "Take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ", we tend to think it's about capturing sinful thoughts and getting them out of our minds. And it is. But it's also about capturing creative thoughts and keeping them in our minds. This Scripture also means stewarding every word, every thought, every impression, and every revelation inspired that God's Spirit. A past pastor writes: "The Aramaic Arabic word of 'prayer' means 'to set a trap.' We often think of prayer as nothing more than words spoken to God, but maybe it's more than that. Prayer is also when God speaks to us through dreams and desires and promptings and impressions and ideas. Prayer is the mechanism whereby God ideas are conceived and captured. And it's our capacity for prayer that will ultimately determine our creative potential. One way to set prayer traps is by keeping a prayer journal... Journaling is one of the most overlooked and under underappreciated spiritual disciplines in our multitasking culture." Your journal captures your journey. It shows you how far you have come and how far you still have to go. It reminds you of God's grace when you stumble in His faithfulness that brought you back to the right road after you have taken the wrong one. When you set a prayer trap, you capture each experience and wiring the wisdom out of it to be better and stronger. You need to "write down the revelation"
(Hab 2:2 NIV). Some of us do this digitally, and others with a pen and paper. What matters is that you are recording what God is doing in your head, in your heart, and in your life.


This Message Was Taken From: Daily Devotional - A Word For You Today.