The Most Effective Work

“Trust in him at all times, you people; Pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us” (Psalm 62:8, NKJV).

You must consider your daily appointments with God more sacred and important than your appointments with any other people, no matter who they are. 

How embarrassing it must be for heaven to see the way we Christians fail to highly regard the majesty of our God, the King of Glory. We are often flippant in the way we keep him waiting. We will suddenly cancel plans to meet with him in his courts at the drop of a hat, all for the most trifling thing.

Can you imagine someone keeping the Creator of the universe waiting while he lingers to view his favorite TV program? Yet that is what many of us do. Even worse, we often do not bother to show up in God’s presence at all. It is not that we forget our appointment with him, but we willfully refuse to appear before him.

Isaiah lamented, “He is despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not esteem him” (Isaiah 53:3). 

When I allow interruptions to come between me and my appointments with the Lord, I am hiding my face from him and not appreciating him as I should. The truth is that it is impossible to waste time when you are seeking God in prayer. Furthermore, outside the secret closet, the praying man or woman accomplishes more in less time, with less hurry, effort and sweat. 

The most effective work for God we will ever do is on our knees. While unpraying men and women run helter-skelter, to and fro, attempting great things, the praying Christian is hard at work moving kingdoms, shattering strongholds, doing great things, and becoming a giant with God in the process.