Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for June 10, 2026

WATCH AND PRAY

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Luke 21:36

“Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Additional Verses

📖 Isaiah 58:6-9; Daniel 6:10-28; Matthew 25:31-46; Luke 21:34-38

Many people do not understand what it means to watch and pray. Watching and praying can be learnt from the life of Jesus Christ when He lived on earth. On the LORD’s Day everyone will be rewarded according to the way they watched and prayed just as was demonstrated by the LORD Jesus Christ Himself while He lived on earth. Jesus Christ is our standard as He Himself was the Word of God Incarnate. Watching and praying therefore means obedience to God’s Word in the Holy Bible. Obedience to God’s Word is the same as faith in God. Hebrew 11:6 says “You cannot please God without faith, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” Luke 21:37 says, “And in the daytime He was teaching in the temple, but at night He went out and stayed on the mountain called Olivet.” This therefore means that Jesus Christ spent all His time during the day doing God’s work among God’s needy people and this is watching. During the day He went about teaching the Word of God as well as healing the sick and delivering the oppressed as well as providing for the hungry and thirsty. Watching therefore in this context means once you become born again, you must look around to see where there is someone in need. Provide for such people. Do not ignore the hungry around you or the thirsty or the naked around you. Matthew 25:37-40 says, “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘LORD, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You? And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ During the night, the Lord Jesus Christ would spend time in prayer away from the multitudes leaving us an example to follow. As a child of God you must also find time to pray to your Father in heaven on your own. Maintain a disciplined prayer programme like what Daniel did and other men and women of God in the Bible did. Pray without ceasing and your heavenly Father will reward you according to your faith and deeds. Hebrews 13:2 says, “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” From today I am therefore saying to you whenever you are blessed by the LORD Jesus Christ, do not ignore those who are in need who are all around you. Alleluia!

Prayer

Thank You LORD Jesus Christ for teaching me to always look around for those who are in need and to pray without ceasing. May You increase in me the grace to have compassion for the poor and to desire more of Your Word. In Jesus Christ’s mighty name I pray. Amen.