If you are an active person, a doer like I am, then
sitting still and just “being” is very hard to do. ADHD affects more people
than we realize, and it drives us to keep busy. We even multitask in an attempt
to accomplish twice as much with our time. We do not let up until we are
exhausted and fall into bed.
In fact, as we lose our physical abilities, we
fail to grow old gracefully. Our hearing and eyesight diminish; our limbs freeze up or
wear out; our mind wanders and our thoughts flow through it like a sieve. We may
even get some terrible, dreaded disease and are bedridden, hospitalized or
moved into a nursing home.
We feel isolated, rejected and unloved by our family
and especially by God. When I remind the aging and infirmed that they can still
pray, they look at me as if I have two heads. They know they can pray, but that
is not what they want to do.
They desire to be active again, to sing in the
choir, to teach bible studies, to play with the babies in the nursery, to help
around the church’s facilities or to cook in the church’s kitchen. They listen to Satan’s lies and forget that God is never
finished with us on this earth until our final breath.
Although we can no
longer perform in the ministries we once loved, there is one ministry that is always
available to us. We can pray. Most people have the opinion that prayer is the
least valuable of all the ministries in which a Believer may participate.
However, prayer changes things; it can move mountains (Mark 11:23). We always encounter God in our
quiet times of prayer. We can pray regardless of where we are, our state of
health or how old we are (Psalm 86:6-7). Many
of God’s children enter a prayer ministry at a young age and recognize it as
the most vital ministry given to us by God.
Prayer:
Father God, prayer keeps us connected to You, allows us
to receive Your guidance, apprises You of our needs, removes our fear, proves
that we have faith in You, allows us to confess all of our sins and keeps us
surrendered to Your will. Remind us that through the power of prayer we can
preach, cast out devils, heal the sick, cleanse the leper and raise the dead as
we are guided by Your Holy Spirit (Mark 11:24;
Philippians 4:6-7; James 5:16; 1 John 5:14-15; Matthew 10:8).
Thought for the Day:
Prayer is communion with God and that is what the
Christian life is all about.
