Daily Devotion
With Pastor Ancel Presnell
“TREATING OTHERS RIGHT THROUGH PRAYER”
Jesus spoke a lot about asking, seeking, and knocking in prayer; He said that He would open things up to us in Matthew 7:7, 8. The Lord is the ultimate giver and the ultimate provider. When we ask Him for provision through prayer, He opens our petitions with righteous answers. Praise His name forever!
How are we to treat other people? In the day and age that we live in, most of us are jaded in what we think of others! There are so many crooked and fake people in our culture, and this causes us to be very leery of others and their motifs. So how are we to treat others? We should treat others as we wish to be treated!
If we desire trust, respect, and kindness, we should reciprocate our desires from others by extended those same desires to them. What is the best way to discern in our actions toward other people? Prayerfully discern. Jesus teaches that the principle of treating others as we wish to be treated is a continual flow of the Law and the Prophets. We are in no place to judge others, but we are in a place to pray for them! It’s nearly impossible to treat others wrong while praying for them as well.
When we treat others poorly, we are making a judgement on them by how we treat them. If we treat them poorly, we determine that they deserve that treatment or in the least, we determine that they deserve no better. This is wrong and we certainly do not wish to be treated as such. We should learn to practice praying over every person that we may encounter each day. We should start our day in prayer and ask the Lord to help us to treat everyone that crosses our paths for each day the same way we desire to be treated. Prayer is the key to treating others right.
Matthew 7:12—“12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
