Continuing Earnestly in Prayer...

 Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;—Colossians 3:2

Beloved, may we reach out by faith to God continually in prayer. May our dependence on our God undergird and underlie all that we do, all that we say and all that we are...ALWAYS.  Without Christ we can do nothing good. Connection to Jesus, is vital. 

"I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”—John 15:5

Father, 

By Your Spirit help me to depend on You by continuing earnestly in prayer...I am a frail and weak human being.  My days are filled with problems that overwhelm and feelings that very often can crowd out rational thought.  I need You, desperately every moment of every day.  Thank you that You don’t change. Thank you that I can never lose You.  Thank you that You will never leave me nor forsake me. Thank you that You are on my side.  Thank you that You sent Your Son, Jesus to die for me when I was still Your enemy. How much more now that I have been reconciled to You, will You give me what I need to sustain me through this life. Your goal is only my good. 

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.—Hebrews 4:14-16

Father, I can rejoice in a sure and certain hope of good continually both temporally and eternally. You have secured my past, present and future.  My past is covered because my sins were forgiven at the moment of my salvation.  My present is covered because Your Son, Jesus, by His death and resurrection tore down the wall of separation.  As a believer, I can NOW come boldly to Your throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in my time of need.  My future is assured because You are my sure and certain hope and my refuge both now and at death.

Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, 20 where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.—Hebrews 6:17-20