Prayer - Expressions From The Heart

My Utmost For His Highest

 

‘Prayer is not a normal part of the life of the natural man. We hear it said that a person’s life will suffer if he doesn’t pray, but I question that. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God in him, which is nourished not by food, but by prayer. When a person is born again from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve or nourish that life. Prayer is the way that the life of God in us is nourished. Our common ideas regarding prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

 

To say that “prayer changes things” is not as close to the truth as saying, “Prayer changes me and then I change things.” God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things. Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person’s inner nature.’ CHAMBERS

 

Have you been asked to pray amongst a group of people? Were you nervous or even fearful?  Or perhaps you heard someone pray and they prayed in another tongue – King James English. As if God wants us to communicate with Him in a language that only English speaking people can speak … a language that has not been used for centuries except in churches that use the King James version of the Bible. The truth …. God wants us to talk with him … He is quite capable of understanding you in your native tongue.  There are no special words or phrases that must be said .. although I find myself using them … God desires relationship with us .. and relationship includes conversation … Have you ever thought about what language God spoke to Adam and Eve in and what language they spoke?  So bottom line .. eloquence .. vocabulary … or language type does not matter … or even if you pray out loud or not.   As one pastor here says to the people …. Priye … priye … priye …  pray ..pray … pray. Then everyone starts praying, out loud at the same time … confusing? No .. it is beautiful … I imagine that is what God hears coming up to heaven … make your voice one that he hears …

 

Make it part of your life. Part of your routine … There is not a minimum  length of time you must pray for it to qualify as a “prayer”.. or a maximum number of words … just pray ..  Matthew 14:30  Peter said “Lord save me”  … three words .. read the Psalms .. you could think of those as prayer .. expressions from the heart.  So how about it? ELGIN

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)