Prayer does not have to be long, and it surely need not be complicated.

 

John R. Rice said that prayer is asking God for something, and the answer to prayer is receiving.

 

Prayer could be as simple and personal as Peter praying while sinking in the waves, “Lord, save me!” (Matthew 14:30)

 

It could be as heartfelt and persistent as the Canaanite woman praying for her demon possessed daughter, “Lord, help me.” (Matthew 15:25)

 

It could be as urgent and dire as the thief dying upon the cross beside Jesus who cried, “Lord, remember me.” (Luke 23:42).

 

God wants to hear our prayers and answer them. Whether you are a special called one like Peter, or an unknown one like the Canaanite woman, or a disgraced one like the thief on the cross, Jesus sits at the Father’s right hand to pray for you and answer your prayers.  Lord: Save!  Help!  Remember me, today for your glory!

 

So today ask God for great and mighty things. Psalm 21 is the prayer of the King, for so we are in Christ: Kings and priests to God.  “Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholder the request of his lips.”  Pray as a king for in Christ you reign in life by His abounding grace.

 

Peter may have felt it was too late to call as he sank beneath the waves, but he cried, Lord, save me. The Canaanite woman may have felt forgotten for Jesus was first silent to her cries for help and then He told her he was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, but she cried, Lord, help me.  The thief may have felt he was too far gone or had sinned beyond God’s grace, but he cried, Lord, remember me.  They each asked, and they all were heard, and God is exalted in hearing and answering their prayers.

 

“Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.”  (Psalm 21:2, 13)