Can You Do Without A Phone?

The answer to this question to some is relative because they are living not in the 22^nd Century where the world is digital. Phone is becoming an asset that I can say falls under primary needs. This is my own hypothetical classification. All evidence qualifies that statement to be true for an average college student or business person. Can you imagine a world where phone is unheard of and the only means of communication is the traditional means that our ancestors used to have like the drums, smoke and the soon to be extinct snail mail? How would it be if you are lost in Nairobi city (or any other big city)  or worse even looking for someone in a large crowd but unfortunately the person you are looking for doesn’t have a phone? It’s really bad I know. At times we lose things like keys and can’t access our rooms or get urgent documents in time.  At those times when we wish we would call the keys and say, “Where are you lost? I need to open this room!” But we remember they are inanimate and can’t be accessed that way. I don’t have to travel all the way to London for instance or send a snail mail to communicate urgent information. I don’t have to shout my voice hoarse when I want to look for someone in a large crowd. I neither don’t have to beat around every bush or ask every Tom, Dick and Harry provided they have a phone and his/her contacts are with me. Basically what I am saying is that phones are necessary for our lives. It has made communication easy and efficient. Talk about the bills that I can pay through the phone, even if it’s the Kabambe phone or the lowest one you can mention. A Motorola C-113 can do that too. Talk of accessing bank services and transferring money or sending to someone. It’s sweeter even when you receive an SMS that starts: “DHJ67DJS CONFIRMED, You have received Kshs. abcd from XYZ…” With a phone too, here in Kenya you can pay school fees and that saves you the stress of having to queue in banks. It saves time. A student wants to know where class lecture is and with a dial, they get the info instead of having to walk all the way peeping through lecture halls and might be the lesson was cancelled. There is a lot to talk about phone.

For most of us, the first thing when we wake up in the morning is to reach out for our phones. Am not an exception and if you don’t reach out for it first, many are. It has taken over the place of many things, talk of the alarm or watch to mention but a few. People in a relationship are the last ones to stay without phones especially when they are operating on long distance relationship, the short distance relationships are no better. Sincerely, I cannot do without a phone. I cannot imagine how life was unlivable without phones.

I want to bring to you another type of phone that Jesus left us with. The Phone that is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven’s storehouse... I would call it the unbeatable phone. It is not the likes of Samsung Galaxy S4, Phantom or all those Smartphones you know of. It is not from Nokia, G-Tide, Samsung, Techno….list them company. It is the best phone so far but cheapest ever price tagged phone.  Surprisingly, people rarely use it yet they need it more that their breath. With this unequaled phone, you’ll never have the subscriber unreachable, you will never hear, “Click, Click, Click, battery low” You’ll never have it fighting over prices with other networks. Its network is always strong wherever you are be it in a dungeon like Jeremiah or in the Whale’s belly like Jonah. More use of this phone earns us more than Bonga Points that rises exponentially and can be redeemed anytime with much benefits. A call with this phone can save a soul, heal the sick, deliver the oppressed, strengthened the weak. Oh surely, what a beautiful phone! I would not call it a tablet because not all will desire to have one but all strive just for a phone. Ask a person who has just finished high school what they want and phone would be among the first things. Am not saying the young ones don’t need it. A time will come when a child will demand for school bag alongside a phone. But this unequalled phone is more powerful, it empowers. We should be using this phone as naturally as we breathe. This phone is none other than PRAYER. It is through prayer that we open our hearts to God as to a friend...Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him. We just ask in prayer and it shall be given to us. We just knock in prayer and the door will be opened for us. We just seek in prayer and we find. God has the best answers when we call Him. They are varied answers never the same always. He has the best reasons whatsoever even when He says “NO” to us. It is because He has the best interests of us. He sends us love messages but we don’t desire to read them. We can call Him anytime of the day or night and we will never be put on hold for another subscriber to be sorted. He can deliver us through prayers. We maintain our relationship with him through the same. We need Prayers in our fight with the devil. As soldiers of the cross, one of the tools we need in the battle is prayer. If we cannot do without our phones then we don’t exist without prayer. If we use our phones often, we need to use prayer more than often. Prayer doesn’t come with the innumerable problems that our phones bring us. We will never be miserable because we made a call to heaven. We will not run out of credit because seemingly God has put us on voicemail. He answers us in the right time. We even don’t know how to ask but Jesus taught us how to pray,

“Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”

Remember prayer is less of “I want…” but more “Thank you for…” It is less of “If you cannot…” but more of “May Your Will be done…” God already knows what we want before we ask Him so if we can help be to the point when we come to Him, the better.  

Less prayer, less power; more prayer, more power; much prayer, much power. Pray every day, every time, every hour, every minute, every second and everywhere. Pray now, pray the next minute, the next hour, all the day, the next day and every day.