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Do you have 5 minutes you can spare today? Maybe 10 or 15 to spare, come what may?

What do you need with five of my minutes today? I say so you can pray! So you can pray!

No, not for me and not even for others. But for yourself and for all your troubles.

God instructed this in Jude 20. He knew we would need it and need it a-plenty!

For your sake He made this command, to build you up and to help you stand.

So we stand firmly on the word of God today. Praying in the Holy Ghost, giving God his way.

That is the only plan that will work for us, as we do what He says in complete trust.

So pray, pray and pray some more, and as we do we settle the score.

The justice Jesus won for us on Calvary, the one we enforce by our bravery.

So put on the armor that God provides and walk on out on the battlefield of life.

Trusting completely in the one who won our war, leaving us to just stand, keeper of the door!

I strongly encourage you to find that extra time. You have a need. it may be a need you are not even aware of. You have need of praying for yourself. How much time do you spend in prayer for others? If you are a sincere Christian that loves the Lord and His people you probrobaly spend alot of time in prayer for others. but how much time do you spend in prayer for yourself? Again, if you are a sincere Christian that loves the Lord probably not much! We have a tendency to lay our lives down for our brothers forgetting that we have to keep ourselves built-up or eventually we will have nothing to give out to any one else. We should be ministering out of our overflow and not out of our emptiness.

How do you get overflow? Jesus said that rivers of living water should be flowing out of us unto others that need it. Jude 20 says to pray for yourselves in the Holy Ghost building yourself up in faith. Jesus asked Peter and the others, "Why, could you not pray for one hour?" Why? to resist temptation! We need to be continually praying for ourselves. I am a firm believer in praying in the Holy Ghost. I have proved out for myself the benefits of this type of prayer. but also we should be praying the word of God over ourselves everyday.

So what sort of things should we be praying? Well let's look at the Word of God and see what it says. In one instance that we know of for sure, Jesus prayed for himself. (Hebrews 5:7) If Jesus himself did then I think it would do us well to pray for ourselves! What did He pray for? For strength to do the will of the Father. How many times do you feel like God is asking something of you that your flesh cringes from? I won't take time to go into a lot of scriptures here but I encourage you to go on Studylight.org and look up different scriptures on prayer and how different ones prayed for themselves. Here is a list to get you started. Matthew 26:41, Mark 14:38, Luke 21:36, Luke 22:40,46,1 Corinthians 14:15, James 5:13.

You are going to get what you sow. What are you sowing with your mouth and with your time? Think about when you have extra time. When you are in the shower?, Cooking?, Cleaning?, Mowing the grass?, Changing your oil? There is always time that you can use more wisely. Ask your Father to make you aware of the extra time and then put it to use! I plead with you for your sake, take a little time everyday and pray over yourself in the Holy Ghost and with the Word. The benefits are OUT OF THIS WORLD!

"Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life" from Tom Kelley

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