The Principles of Prayer XIV

Everything you see, and everyone you know, including yourself, has a final chapter. There is finality to every breathing thing in the sea, in the air, and on land, including the land and the sea themselves. The end credits will eventually roll on my life, at least as it pertains to this plane of existence, but in His abundant grace, God has extended His hand and offered eternity to all who would take it and walk faithfully with Him. It should be a reality that humbles us to our core, yet some feel so entitled to this priceless gift as to trample upon it, dismiss it, ignore it, or think so little of it as to consider obedience and righteousness too high a cost to pay in order to receive what God has promised.

What could you or I have done to earn such a priceless gift? How many hungry could we have fed, lives saved, sermons preached, or orphans cared for to conclude that eternity in His presence is not only warranted, but well deserved?

God reigns today, as He always has, and will reign forevermore. There has never been a pause in God’s reign; He has never, as some assert, taken a step back from the course of human history. The only people insisting that God is an absentee landlord, no longer concerned with the goings on of His creation are those who either don’t believe in His existence, or those who use it as a means to numb themselves to the reality that one day they will have to stand before Him and answer for the life they lived.

Prayer coupled with faith gives us access to God, the Creator of all that is seen and unseen, and not for a thirty-second window until the next appointment comes along, but for as long as we desire to be in His presence and fellowship with Him. God will never be too busy to hear our prayers, nor will He cut us off because He has somewhere else to be. If we feel as though we are lacking in spending time in His presence, the fault lies solely at our feet, for we determine how much time we spend in fellowship with Him.

What could be more important than spending time with God? Anyone who insists that there is something has yet to grasp the fullness of who God is and the absolute honor His grace has afforded us that we might commune and fellowship with Him. The majesty of God is something we can never lose sight of or allow to grow dull in our minds.

Revelation 4:11, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created.”

This is the God we serve. We do not serve some carved idol fashioned by the hands of men, nor do we serve some amorphous deity shrouded in mystery, aloof and unconcerned; we serve the One who created all things, and by whose will they exist. There is none other in the universe worthy of worship, allegiance, glory, and honor, and this God, who created all things, knows you by name and desires to have fellowship with you.

I’m self-aware enough to know that I am undeserving of this honor. There is nothing I’ve done or could ever do to earn the grace to have unlimited communion and fellowship with God. It is His grace, His unmerited favor, that allows us to have this relationship with Him. Although I can do nothing to earn it, in His goodness, that’s exactly what He offers every single one of us.

The only thing required for our faith to flourish, grow, and mature is to believe God at His word. When the Bible says nothing is impossible to God, it’s not hyperbolic or exaggerated for effect. It is the truth, plain and simple. Our faith is the key that unlocks the door to God’s power and blessings. Though the mind of man cannot grasp the reality that there is nothing beyond the realm of possibility when it comes to what God can do, we nevertheless believe it because He said it, and we know that He does not lie.

Last summer, we got some pretty severe storms in our neck of the woods. The girls had been playing with a bucket they found in the garage and had left it out during the storm. The rain filled it to overflowing, and the next morning they went out and tried to move the bucket or tip it over, but to no avail. I watched them for a time, then asked if they needed help.

“It won’t move,” the little one said. “It’s too heavy. I don’t think anyone can move it.”

“I can try, if you want,” I answered, to which they both got this incredulous look on their face, fully convinced that if they hadn’t been able to move it, I’d fail in the attempt as well. Eventually, they both agreed to accept the proffered help. I picked up the bucket one-handed and spilled the water in the yard. As a dad, it’s always fun when your children see you as a superhero. To them, my ability to pick up the bucket and do what they couldn’t was one such moment.

Just because you can’t see yourself through a situation, or find it impossible to accomplish something of your own volition, it doesn’t mean God does as well. What is impossible to you is as easy as picking up a bucket to God, because His power is unlimited, and there is nothing He cannot do.

Our perception of what God can do can’t be limited to what man can do. If it were so, then that would mean God was as a man, and His limitations would be as such. What would be the point of serving, worshipping, or obeying someone whose strength and ability are on par with your own?

Job 42:2, “I know that You can do everything, and that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.”

We trust and believe that God can do things beyond what our minds can comprehend because He can. It’s not our imaginations running amok, or something we tell ourselves because it sounds good to our ears, but because it is true. Undeniably, unequivocally, true!

With love in Christ,

Michael Boldea, Jr.  

Posted on 29 April 2025 | 11:25 am