Message #16 (of 20) from the PrayerPower radio series
"Asking - God’s Way"

by Kaye Johns

As Christians, we’re to be humble, yet bold in our prayers. Jesus taught His disciples they should have a servant heart, willing even to wash others’ feet [John 13:4-11]. Humility is putting others above ourselves, no matter who they are, with a willingness to serve them.

And in that serving, we’re to be bold--bold in our prayers for what we need, bold in our prayers for others. We have the right, through Jesus’ sacrifice, through Jesus’ righteousness, to go straight to God when we are His children. We don’t have to wait for the right time or the right place; we just have to be bold enough to come straight to His throne with our prayer.

In His parable of the friend at midnight, Jesus teaches about that boldness. The story tells of a man who needs bread in the middle of the night for an unexpected guest. He knocks on his neighbor’s door and ask for bread, unwilling to take "no" for an answer until the friend agrees to give what he needs [Luke 11:3-8].

He keeps asking, which is the persistence we’re to have in prayer. But think of the boldness! To knock on someone’s door in the middle of the night until they get out of bed to give you some bread--would we be willing to do that? Yet, this is exactly the attitude Jesus teaches we’re to have in our prayers. We’re to come boldly to our Father.

Is that how we pray?

Pray with me now -- Lord, help us to comprehend our access to your throne. In Jesus’ name, amen.

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