How's your time with the Lord?
Silence.
Speechless.
He said finally not too good there.
You see what I mean?
He's going to seminary to learn how to
be a pastor and he doesn't even have
time to pray.
When he graduates his schedule's not going to
change.
He'll be more busier then than he is
now.
You all know that.
If he doesn't make time now to be
with the Lord he's going to fall on
his face.
He doesn't make that a priority.
He's like Martha, focused on too many things.
He's forgetting the main thing, Jesus.
We must take time to pray.
I am reminded about an oil painting that
hangs in a Spanish gallery.
In that little scene is a farmer.
He's just removed his straw hat.
He's laid down his farm implements and he's
assumed the position of prayer.
In the distance of that painting if you
look closely there's a little village in the
background with a church steeple and a bell
tower and evidently the bell has rung calling
the little community to a time of prayer.
Everyone's laid down their farm implements, set down
their work and they're praying and he's doing
that.
But if you look more closely at that
painting over to the right is a form
of an angel and that angel has picked
up his plow and has gotten a team
of mule going and it seems like that
angel's getting ready to make a new furrow
in the ground and the caption of that
oil paint is three words.
Three words.
You know what they are?
No time lost.
Do you get it?
When we pray, all of heaven is enlisted
on our behalf.
We get more done in prayer than we
do out of prayer.