Wrestling in Prayer

 A. W. Tozer is one of my favorite authors when it comes to prayer. During a 28-Days Meditation on Prayer in my personal devotion, I wrote this in my journal...

We all have the tendency to pray for what we desire with fervency and intensity, but is it what God desires? Wrestling in prayer should never become an extreme religious activity with a motive to get our own way. The questions are who's doing the praying? Is it our determined heart, or the Holy Spirit?

If we are praying in the Spirit, then prayer originates with God the Holy Spirit. Therefore, wrestling can be beautiful and certainly profitable. An example to consider is Jacob (Genesis 32:24-29). God initiated the wrestling!

Praying in the Spirit is like God wrestling with Himself in you to transform your will to align with His.

This is a good thing!

Will you let God wrestle with you in prayer until you're changed from the inside out and have a limp to remind you of the power of praying in the Spirit?

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