PRAY ANYWAY- Matthew 14:22-23

Matthew 14:22-23

Taken from the book "A Shepherd's Voice", Reflections on the Sunday Gospel
( Cycle A ) by Most Rev. Mylo Hubert C. Vergara, DD, MA, STD.


When you don't know how to pray, pray anyway!is no excuse.
When you don't feel like praying, pray anyway! Depression is no excuse.When dullness sits on you like a vulture, and you can't muster enough enthusiasm to change channels,much less to pray, pray anyway! Boredom in no excuse!
When you see no need to pray and no reason to intercede for those about you,
recognize this as a sign of impending danger, and pray anyway! Blindness is no excuse. When you've grown spiritually lazy and feel that you'll never be able to pick up your Bible and read it the way you once did, especially pray anyway.

Laziness is no excuse.When you don't understand what big deal is about prayer,and you think it's overrated because it never did you much good, pray anyway. Immaturity is no excuse. When you're tired to remember your own name, and you know God will understand if you don't pray, pray anyway. Fatigue is no excuse. When you're embarassed to be back before God, confessing the same sins and admitting the same failures, come on and pray anyway. Shame is no excuse. When you've been unfaithful and you know it and you feel that burden of guilt that makes you want to run and hide under the porch, pray anyway Sin is no excuse. When the nagging voice of the enemy keeps telling you there is no God and even if there were, He'd never have anything to do with a nothing like you, pray anyway. Unbelief is no excuse.

We can bless ourselves immeasurably by rescuing our prayer life from bondage to our emotions and circumstances. There is no time and there are no conditions in which prayer is not necessary,not helpful, and not the right thing to do.