There was a lady named Anna. She had been a widow for many years. She did not depart from the temple, but worshiped God with prayer and fasting night and day. Night and day. 24/7. Continuously. Constantly. This speaks volumes about her heart…and ours. How many of us can see ourselves doing this? Her heart must have been ablaze with love and adoration toward God to sustain this constant humble worship.
Do we approach each day as an opportunity to worship God? To spend time with God in praise and prayer? As we awake? On the road? In our spare moments? As we go to sleep? Even in the midst of many tasks, we can praise God and pray – do we? Most of us can’t focus exclusively on worship like Anna did – we have families and jobs. Yet even those activities can be offered up to God as worship – honoring him, serving him.
Are you ready to offer humble worship to God today?
Brian J. Mikul 
“One of my seminary profs once said that Christ saving somebody from sin was a greater miracle than him physically healing someone – and considering how spiritually messed up we are, I think he (and you) are right.”
You made this comment awhile back. Without having to stretch it too far, I think relates here in this area of worship/praying. I was with a friend the other night that leads a group of mothers in praying for their kids. She’s done it for 10 years. Somehow, Bible study was mentioned, to which she said, ‘Oh no! My ladies don’t want to do Bible study. They want to pray’. (Of course they study on their own.)
It struck me. Is that not what is missing. There are Bible studies galore. How many people would meet regularly to just pray? I believe that is the key element in the greater miracle of people being saved . . . and even the lesser miracles.
Mike,
Interesting – I and some other pastors get together regularly and a few months ago we were talking about the same thing. Prayer Meetings can easily turn into Bible studies with just a few minutes at the end to pray. Certainly Bible study is important, but we need time to really pray together.