Prayer in the Wrong Place

Sometimes people put prayer in the wrong place. They have an idea that it is necessary to come to God and plead with Him, and pray to Him to put away their sins, and save them in His mercy. Dear friends, Scripture turns things just the other way. Paul says, “As though God did beech you by us, we pray you in Christ’s behalf, be ye reconciled to God.”
I can remember the night I was converted. I can recall, though I was just fourteen, kneeling in my own room in the presence of God. I began to beseech Him to look upon me in grace, and save my soul. Then I thought, “What is it that I am asking God to do? I am asking Him to do something that He has been offering to do for years, but I have been refusing to permit Him to do it. I am asking Him to give me something — salvation, eternal life — which He has been offering me for years past, and yet here I come pleading for it. Why not simply accept His salvation and thank Him?”
I remember the words that came home to my soul, “He that believeth on him is not condemned; but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.” Kneeling there I said to Him, “Blessed God, I do believe in Thy Son. I trust Him now as my Saviour, and Thou past told me, ‘He that believeth on him is not condemned’.” I knew then and there that He had saved me in His infinite love and kindness. I knew something of the meaning of David’s expression, “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.”
If you are thinking seriously of these things, but do not know that your sins are forgiven, are covered, or that your soul is saved, let me say to you, just look up by faith to the Lord Jesus Christ, and He will save you right now. “He that believeth on him is not condemned; but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”