Laborare est Orare: Prayer & Potency of Work

Laborare Est Orare

Laborare Est Orare means Work is Prayer

Let us not, with folded arms, float with the tide of indolence, but ever strive after increase of that true knowledge which is wisdom and remember that “to labour is to pray,” or as the Latin motto has it, “Laborare est Orare,” for the day. ~ Wm Wynn Wescott [1]

No matter how we pray, work and attitude has its place. This is a strong truth so many Christians fail to understand. Prayer is good, but prayer isn't the answer to everything.

Somewhere in the scripture, the Bible says that before we pray, he will answer us (Isaiah65:24). This is because we've exhibited attitudes that will attract miracles.

People, sometimes pray for miracles to happen.
What you need is character, not prayer, not
speaking in tongues. God is a spirit, and for him to bless you, he needs to pass through a man.

If you lack good relationship with the people around you, you'll hardly be blessed. God works with relationship. You must learn to treat people with courtesy.

The Shunammite woman must have been
praying for a child all through her life. I'm sure.
She was a prominent woman and surely she
had money but couldn't buy a child.

Do you know what made her have a child? She took care of Elisha, a servant of God. She respected him, she was hospitable, she was kind, she had character. Elisha, spoke into her womb and in a year, she had a child. Assuming she wasn't hospitable, polite and kind? She would've still been praying and fasting, binding and casting demons that don't exist and absolutely nothing would have happened.

Sometimes, we are our demons. Our attitudes
are our destiny killers. Some of us have insulted people that were divinely positioned to help us.
Some of us are keeping malice with our destiny helpers. Some of us are still suffering, not because we lack talent but because we lack CHARACTER.

Talent is Attractive

Anyone can be talented, but character is a
proof of discipline. A proof of responsibility.
Character sustains the attraction talent gives
you.

Character is virtue, and sometimes favour is triggered by virtue. Mary was a Virgin. She had virtue which attracted the favour of being the mother of the Saviour of the world!

In all thy getting, get character. Respect people. Treat everyone big or small with courtesy. Be kind for you never know who your angel would be. Your Angel won't always come like an Angel. Therefore look down on nobody, anyone can change your life.

It was the maid of Naaman, that told him where to get healing. Naaman was a great man but had leprosy. He must have visited the greatest hospital in the world as of that time. Who would've ever thought that the solution to his problem was in the mouth of his maid?

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Sometimes the solutions to our problems are
trapped in the mouths of mere people, but
many of us are not humble enough to see it. Beware of spiritual pride for it disguises itself as righteousness.

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Prayer is not all. Build good relationships with everyone around you. God will definitely use man someday. Respect and be kind to people for by doing so, you may entertain an angel without knowing. Make a change of thoughts now and your life will never remain the same.

Thank you for visiting my blog. May you have the ability to execute your plans.

Your boy,
Owen Maya
@owenmaya