In business, one of the ways to determine if spending money or time (which equates to money) is a good idea is to calculate a return on investment, or ROI if you like acronyms. As homeowners, we calculate a different kind of ROI – can we get our money back from the improvement when we sell the house?
As Christians, we have a different kind of ROI, and a different investment. What kind of return do you expect from your prayer investment? What kind of return do you GET from your prayer investment?
In Tuesday’s reading from “Voices From The Past”, Puritan Devotional Readings, on page 167, Thomas Case is dealing with affliction and prosperity, and how they affect our prayer life. He states “In adversity we are early with God in prayer. In prosperity we pray and hardly take notice of the answers. But in affliction we can press God for the return of our prayers. God is never worse than His word.”
Do you pray expecting God to answer?
