The Necessity of Pressing In
We love the prayer room. It is the center of everything we do and it is the springboard for the entire ministry that we, as a missions base, put our hands to.
Yes, we love the prayer room but there are those days, those times, when we would give anything to be somewhere else; such is our humanity. After four straight hours of prayer we begin to wonder if we can indeed keep going for the next two!
We are, all of us, weak in the things of the Spirit. We are not naturally gifted with the perseverance, patience, and intensity necessary to carry the burden of the Lord in intercession. The simple truth is that we must work to be sensitive to the things of the Spirit.
Endurance for an athlete comes only by the stretching, tearing, and rebuilding of muscle tissue through the rigors of practice, training, and competition. It is similar for our spirit man; we must condition it and build it up by pressing in and not giving up when our flesh is warring for the immediate pleasures and gratifications of this life. An athlete that never pushes through the pain of training would never be expected to win a championship. We must run in such a way as to win the prize and we must take advantage of every moment to train ourselves in the things of the kingdom of God.
