You Need To Have Structures

“I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.” 2 Timothy 1:3

In 1972, Joan Baez was a singer and activist who was always working on a cause.

During the Vietnam War, she travelled to Hanoi with a peace delegation and was there during an American bombing campaign that lasted 12 days. During those days, she often sang the Lord’s Prayer. “We spent the whole time in the basement of our hotel. I have never been so afraid in my life. I thought I was going to die. But I learned something—when the flames start coming towards you everyone starts praying, even the atheists and the agnostics, but when the flames start fading away we all go back to the structures and beliefs that we had before.”

So what was Joan’s “structure and belief”?

Joan’s parents were Quakers, and her faith in Christ was strengthened knowing that God heard her prayers during those 12 days.

Prayer is releasing God’s power.

Thank Christ for the extraordinary privilege to come to Him at any time in prayer.

“I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.” – Martin Luther

“With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith.” 2 Thessalonians 1:11