*DAILY DEW 16/NOVEMBER/2023* *PRAYER--A LOVE LANGUAGE* (5) _Key Bible Text:_ *"And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?"* (Matthew 26:40 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ Love demands time, affection, care and selflessness. Prayer when viewed as a love language, compels consistency and regular, quality time. Quality does not necessarily mean quantity. However, quality means meaningful and impactful. The time you spend before a good relationship can be built must be significant and consistent. In the same manner, the way we pray effectively, is to create time and indulge or spend a considerable length of time. When Jesus needed prayer back up, he asked his disciple, Peter, *"What, could ye not watch with me one hour?"* This lends us an idea of what length of time Jesus considered fair at that time and in the circumstance. This does not mean praying less than an hour is not good enough, but it does show that praying an hour or more is good enough. However, even if we pray an hour but we are not consistent, it will still not bring about the goal-- to build a sweet fellowship and relationship with your heavenly Father. One that is strong enough to impact one's life and destiny. We must strive to build a praying habit both personally and corporately. Personally, work hard to raise a prayer pattern or structure for your life, a pattern that has both internal strength and external strength. Internal strength being your personal prayer times and routines while external speaks of your group or church or general and even family prayer times. _MEDITATION:_ *Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.* (Matthew 26:41 (KJV)) *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_NOVEMBER,2023* ❤ Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you.....

*DAILY DEW 15/NOVEMBER/2023* *PRAYER--A LOVE LANGUAGE* (4) _Key Bible Text:_ *"But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: FOR YOUR FATHER KNOWETH WHAT THINGS YE HAVE NEED OF, BEFORE YE ASK HIM."* (Matthew 6:7-8 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ During my courtship days, some of the gist, on some days,were the usual ones, with nothing extra ordinary. We just replayed how the day had gone and sometimes, the day had worn a uniform with nothing extra to pick on for more elaborations. Sometimes on such days, just to elongate the session, we can go back to things that had happened on other days that we probably hadn't share about or we pick on some future ideas or aspirations to talk about. Significantly, the gist was good all the same and nothing dry at all. The company we kept, the staying on the phone talking, the catching up generally, even if it involved some repetitions or a lot, was all okay and enjoyable to us. It was not vain repetitions. What God is against is vain repetitions, with emphasis on, as the Gentiles do. See I Kings 18:25-29 for an example of classic gentile repetitions. But again take a look at verse 8: our Father knows what we need before we ask. This again buttresses the point that I have been making. Just like my wife and I enjoyed our daily company, even when we knew some gists would be similar to what we had discussed before, God wants our company in the place of prayer, even when he already knows what we need before we ask. That screams love relationship to me. Prayer is indeed a love language! _MEDITATION:_ *When your perspective about prayer changes from simply asking for what you need or want to a time when you build on your relationship with God, gaining intimacy, you will look forward to every prayer time and will feel bad whenever you miss it* *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_NOVEMBER,2023* ❤ Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you.....

*DAILY DEW 14/NOVEMBER/2023* *PRAYER--A LOVE LANGUAGE* (3) _Key Bible Text:_ *"But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."* (Matthew 6:6 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ Communication is achieved when the parties involved are on the same page. Until then, communication is not complete. Therefore, when we pray, our aim is not just to clear our chest or speak our minds or express a burden. Rather, when we pray we must take care to consider the conditions or environment conducive or acceptable to God as well. This simply means taking heed to pray or communicate in a manner that equally agrees with God or meets his terms. While Matthew 6:6 spells out the place of praying in secret, we need to understand that this speaks more of motive than simply praying in secret. When your motive of praying openly is to score a cheap point before men, then, you are simply on your own. At the same time, the need for speaking with God in secret underscores the place of prayer as a love language. It is supposed to be a love affair between you and God. A bonding moment. Even in a marriage relationship, the more you talk and communicate as a couple, the more you understand each other and the more you become a better partner to each other. The same applies in our relationship with God too. The more we spend quality time in prayer, the more we understand who we are in Christ and the more we are aligned to the plans and purposes of God. _MEDITATION:_ *The Secret place is the place of nuturing and building intimacy, bonding and boldness with God. Practicing the secret place produces a dynamic Christian life that stands out in the crowd* *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_NOVEMBER,2023* ❤ Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you.....

*DAILY DEW 13/NOVEMBER/2023* *PRAYER--A LOVE LANGUAGE* (2) _Key Bible Text:_ *"And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed."* (Mark 1:35 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ Communication in a relationship is like the heart in a living being. Anything that kills the heart, kills the being. Likewise, anything that kills communication, kills the relationship. The priority Jesus placed on prayer reveals the love bond between Jesus & His Heavenly Father. He would rather suffer less sleep, than miss the fellowship with his Father. Before I "met" my wife, one of the failed relationships I experienced, had ended, among other major reasons, for lack of communication. So when I eventually met my wife, and observed that she cherished communication as much as I did, it was one of the many green lights we saw. God made us love beings for a purpose. One of that purpose, is for us to learn to connect with him as our heavenly Father, intimately & personally. Prayer is the oxygen of our relationship with God. It is a love language that lubricates our relationship with God, and bring about maturity or growth or bonding that we would otherwise never experience. _MEDITATION:_ *We love him, because he first loved us.* (1 John 4:19 (KJV)) *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_NOVEMBER,2023* ❤ Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you.....

*DAILY DEW 12/NOVEMBER/2023* *PRAYER--A LOVE LANGUAGE* _Key Bible Text:_ *"And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.."* (Mark 6:46 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ At the very heart of it, prayer is communication. It is communication between man and God; between the mortal and the immortal; between human and the divine; the less mighty and the Almighty; the fallible and the infallible; in short, it is communication between YOU and God! Anyone in love, of all class of persons, understands fully the place and power of communication. Majority of breakups and misunderstandings in relationships, especially marital or romantic relationships, is caused by breakdown or breach in communication. Simple! When I was courting my wife, for a good time it was a distance relationship. Never would a day pass by, that we won't make time to hear from each other--unless a few understandable exceptions. It was a daily routine. It was usually sometimes around 10pm. And it was so because, we would have addressed all the pressing demands of the day. Sometimes, the gist would stretch into the night. Sometimes, either of us would sleep off on the other. Sometimes, we waited to see who would end the call first. Sometimes, we just listened to the silence in between. But we usually cherished every moment of it. Jesus had a custom of making time to pray to His father daily. It was a love affair. It was a ritual to be kept. He could send people away, just so he could spend time with this special person in His life-- God, the Father. Thus, he left for us a model, a path to follow. _MEDITATION:_ *Why do we struggle to pray? Is it not a pointer that our communication with God is not understood as a relationship with our heavenly lover?* *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Daily_Wisdom_for_living* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#The_Rise_of_An_Army* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#Hello_NOVEMBER,2023* ❤ Links To Visit: *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you.....