No to last-minute prayers

"The Lord said to Gideon, 'You have too many men for me to deliver Midian into their hands. In order that Israel may not boast against me that her own strength has saved her, announced now to the people, 'Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.'" - Jud 7:2-3

Sometimes God allows us to encounter failures in life so that we will learn that it is not through our own strength, but his loving grace and kindness that has enabled us to survive tribulations or enjoy certain successes in life. Whilst we may not completely comprehend the reasons for his doings - what we know for certain is that, we were created to worship Him. 

"Yet all the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed." - Luke 5:15-16

Unlike Jesus, I usually pray to God in times of need, or when temptation to sin strikes - which to my dismay sometimes, those prayers go unanswered. However, by cultivating a heart of prayer and praying at every possible time, instead of "last-minute" prayers, I might possibly find myself more at the receiving end of God's power in my life. 

PRAYER:

"Abba Father, would you grant me the wisdom to learn of the ways in which you work, so that I may also revel along with you your wonderful deeds. Grant me a better understanding so that my faith may also grow stronger. Heavenly Father, help me to be like Jesus, to develop the habit of taking every time on my own to go into prayer with you. Break me out of the habit of "last-minute" prayers, so that I can in all my ways please and honor you daily. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen."