Whereas many of us were raised to believe that praying is only a matter of asking for things from God, the biblical meaning of the term implies something completely different.
Since creation, God has proved that He delights in blessing His people, which culminated in Christ, Abraham’s Seed, who is the source of all our blessedness.
In a crazy world that measures success only in terms of how much wealth one has accumulated, we are always faced with the temptation to have an attitude to money that does not honour God.
God is challenging us not to allow the world’s definition of ‘success’ or ‘failure’ to detract us from pursuing our ultimate prize – the crown of glory from the hands of our Master when we finish our race.