A Strange Prayer

The Million Dollar Life

By William M. Self, Sr.

 

Do you know that a very wise man

Would make this request?

A Strange Prayer

What is your life prayer?

If you narrowed down all your requests to two things…

If you were given two wishes, what would they be?

In Proverbs 30, we find a man Agur ben Jakeh

who made two requests in prayer.

When we look at any request, we must take

 into consideration the back ground to the request.

Agur sees himself as an unwise man and

maybe that would explain his strange request…

Until we understand why he considers himself unwise.

He realizes his lack of understanding God.

If he were to compare himself with others,

he would have been considered very wise.

But the more he gets to know God

 the more he realizes his lack of understanding.

  Most of us over 50 can relate starting those teenage

years of independence, we think we know it all.

But the older we get and the more we know,

 the less we realize we do know.

This is where Agur is at, he is a brilliant man

 but he understands his daily need for God.

As we are taught to pray…

 “Give us this day our daily bread.”

Agur first request was for truth…

 Many of us are satisfied with saying something that sounds good.

Agur is requesting the truth that

 sets you free and keeps you free.

The truth that comes from speaking as God speaks.

The second thing Agur requested was…  

“Give me neither poverty nor riches”.

Agur understands human nature…

 We fail when we have too little or too much.

Agur understood daily dependence and looking to God

for every need is the wealthiest place a person can be.

The best life is the life that is at

Christ’s feet and close to His hand.

Jesus is still feeding the multitudes

 that are closely following Him.

Those who look to God for their daily

 bread see uncomprehendable miracles…

Like manna from heaven, and the

multiplying of the loaves and fishes.

What is your prayer?

 

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 1:18-19 NIV

18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in

order that you may know the hope to which he has called

you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

Proverbs 30:7-10 NIV

7 "Two things I ask of you, O Lord;

do not refuse me before I die:

8 Keep falsehood and lies far from me;

give me neither poverty nor riches,

but give me only my daily bread.

9 Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you

and say, 'Who is the Lord?'

Or I may become poor and steal,

and so dishonor the name of my God.

Deuteronomy 8:17-18 NIV

17 You may say to yourself, "My power and the

strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me."

18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is

he who gives you the ability to produce wealth