I remember our usual practice as children. We would lift a few weights and rush to the mirror the next day to check for muscles, only to be disappointed. We didn’t understand that muscles don’t grow overnight. They grow by daily training. The same is true spiritually. You don’t build spiritual strength in a day. You build it daily.
Friend, you must develop your prayer muscles. What separates strong believers from weak ones is not talent but consistency. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally. Your future is shaped by your daily habits. You must commit to daily growth.
Prayer is the gym of the spirit. Your prayer life determines your spiritual vitality. Seven prayerless days will make one weak. You wouldn’t go to the gym once a month and expect to be fit, so don’t pray only when you feel like it. If you want a glorious destiny, you need a consistent prayer habit (Jude 1:20).
Some people are building with prayer, others without it. The difference may not show today, but it will definitely show later (Malachi 3:16-18). Prayer may not produce instant results, but it always produces ultimate results. Prayer is an investment in your destiny. It must be daily.
Physical exercise profits for a little while, but prayer secures your entire future (1 Timothy 4:7-8). If athletes get visible results from daily physical training, we will get far greater, eternal results from daily spiritual training. As New Testament priests, we are being built into a spiritual house to offer sacrifices acceptable to God (1 Peter 2:5).
Commit to a daily life of prayer. No matter what happens, let prayer not reduce, let it increase (Acts 6:4). Chats can reduce. Time on social media can reduce. Even sleep and meals can be adjusted, but not prayer. This is the time to go deeper, wider, higher, and stronger in prayer. You will reap the reward (Galatians 6:7-8).
‘Demola Awoyele,
Destiny Impact Church
Akure, Nigeria
