NKJ 1 Pet. 5:5-7 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble." 6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, 7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
This is a lesson with commands to be properly submissive to others. It firstly speaks of an authority structure God has created, youth in humble submission to elders. The reasoning drawn from Scripture is that God gives grace to the humble - those in proper submission to proper authority and then in proper submission to the interests of others. The command to humble yourselves under God's might hand is speaking in this context, to be properly submissive to what He has structured and ordained. He is the one who will exalt us when He determines to do so, so don't be prideful and exalt yourself or you'll find yourself being opposed to God's mighty hand instead of being given His grace. If you truly want to understand the final part of the command that you use to say God will charge everyone's car battery if they just pray, then you'll need to chase the reference back to the Psalms and into how Jesus spoke of a similar concept. I'd suggest you retain the context of God exalting in His time and not being anxious about it.
NKJ 1 Thessalonians 5:17 pray without ceasing,
NKJ Luke 11:1 Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples."
Most literally the command to pray without ceasing means to not lack - to not be deficient - in prayer.
Prayer is indeed important. God determines what to answer, how and when to answer, and what not to answer, which is in itself an answer.
It's presumptuous of you to say God will always charge your dead battery. The typical progression of this guidance is to then say, as you have essentially done, that if God does not charge your battery, then there must be something wrong with your faith and suggest you are harboring unconfessed sin.
I was walking through a beautiful outdoor shopping complex one time in the heart of Orange County CA where at the time TBN had it's headquarters in the area. I noticed a man walking in my direction with a sling on his arm. I then recognized him to be a very well-known TV personality who had a healing ministry. Reach out and touch your TV screen and receive God's healing and send us a love gift.
I was near enough to ask him why the sling. I chose to hold my peace and thanked our Lord for showing me the nonsense done in His name.
What is it you are choosing to expose yourself to that is ordering your thinking?
NKJ Psalm 118:24 This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.I'll let the NET Bible notes explain this, so it's not me. I don't expect you'll consider either of us, but here it is:
NET Notes (Psa 118:24) 30 tn Heb "this is the day the LORD has made." Though sometimes applied in a general way, this statement in its context refers to the day of deliverance which the psalmist and people celebrate.
Men have made many religious traditions from reading the Word of God. Then they created little to large sectarian societies who assume their traditions. After entering the Faith as a newborn temporal adult, I soon came to realize how many biblically unlearned people and charlatans there are. I simply have since chosen to pursue the accurate interpretation of the "Word of Truth."
NKJ 2 Tim. 2:15-16 Be diligent to present yourself approved (genuine, valuable) to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 16 But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.
My batteries stay pretty well-charged these days, Cameron. And I have studied and taught some things about "godliness."
