A million prayers are said every
day. Probably more. And what if most of those prayers are said
wrong?
At least that is what a lot of people
fear. They fear that they are doing this
prayer thing all wrong.
You wanna know what I think? Keep reading.
This guy starts us off on a good
step.
“Prayer
requires faith to believe that God listens.”
~Philip
Yancey
It is a simple matter of faith that God
is up there somewhere and He is actually paying attention to our mundane and
muddied life.
Anne Lamont says this: “A great prayer – ‘help. Enter this mess.’”
And He does.
God is much more interested in us than we
allow ourselves to believe.
Anne also says: “God can handle honesty, and prayer begins as
honest conversation.”
Believe it or not, God can even handle a
prayer like this: “I hate you.”
Or “Why would you allow something like
this to happen?”
He is not put off with our human emotions
boiling over or rising to the surface.
He will guide us to answers and reasons, and sometimes He just listens
and holds our hand in the middle of the crisis.
God does not mark you down for wrong praying. He does not grade you for getting it
wrong. Actually, there is no such thing
as a bad prayer.
So call out, scream if you must, cry,
moan, groan, rock back and forth, kneel, stand, sit, lie down or any other
posture your body likes to assume and let it flow out.
LET IT FLOW OUT!
He hears every word.
He captures every intent of our thoughts.
“Prayer
requires faith to believe that God listens.”
~Philip
Yancey
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