Daily devotion – It’s time to pray, now!
We can’t thank the prayer team enough here at Calvary Chapel Secret Harbour. Time and again we have seen our prayers—especially in the most serious of situations—answered by our Lord as He faithfully responds to the cries of His people.
At this very moment, as you read this devotion, your whole world may feel as though it has collapsed. Perhaps you’ve received tragic news, experienced a breakdown in a relationship, or are carrying the weight of deep disappointment. I am reminded that it is always in our darkest hours, when we pray, that God so often does His greatest miraculous work—because this is who He is.
The disciples were transformed from worrying, faithless fishermen into bold, heroic witnesses after Christ rose from the dead and the Holy Spirit empowered them on the day of Pentecost. When they prayed—now against and for the impossible, as we will see this Sunday in Acts chapter 4—their prayers were so powerful that the ground itself was shaken.
Perhaps you have drifted in your walk with Christ, not leaning on prayer, failing to see its purpose or necessity in your life. Yet the prayer most often prayed by believers is simple and honest:
“God, help me.”
Jesus is not distant, nor is He off somewhere in the ether of the universe. No—He is our High Priest, still interceding for us, hearing our prayers, and answering them according to the will of the Father.
This is what Peter referred to in Acts chapter 3, when the power of God—through the resurrected Jesus—used Peter to grasp the hand of a man born lame and lift him to his feet. For the first time in over forty years, that man stood, walked, and praised God.
That pain… that ache… that burden or grief you are carrying right now—turn it into a prayer and cast it at the feet of the One who brings light into darkness.
Romans 8:34
Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
Through prayer, let God into your life—into your crisis—and He will bring His mercy, His love, and His power into the very situation you face.