Prayer

Prayer. The more I prayer the more I discover I have to ask for. This asking isn't the oh God I want this or this would be nice, but it's more like the God develop patience in me, give me opportunities to trust you. God change my mindsets. God, Psalm 37:4 says that if I delight in you I will be given the desires of my heart, but to be perfectly honest I know that the desires of my heart would be entirely different if I knew how to delight in you. Prayer. I keep thinking about this. Prayer. I can't get it off of my mind lately. I feel as if many Christians do not understand the importance to come to God in prayer-with thanks, with request, we declarative statements, with repenting hearts. Prayer. To become people who pray continuously is asked of us by the Apostle Paul. There has been an air of apathy in my life in regards to prayer lately. How about yours? As I have gone through life somehow my faith and my prayer life have shown a tendency to want to seperate, but once one is hit the other falters. My heart goes out to those right now who desire to hear God's voice but feel as if no one is listening. My heart breaks right now for people who have given up on prayer altogether. Prayer. If this is you please allow the powerful God of the Universe to hear your cry for him. May your life be a call out to God to tell him you desire him. As I have spend the last couple weeks looking at my prayers I have noticed they have a tendency to be repetitive, vague, and safe. Prayer should not be dumbed down to this. The repetition has proven a lack of thought put into what I need God show himself faithful. The vagueness has come as a result of allowing God room to show me anything along with a fear that if I get too specific God will actually make me sacrifice which leads to the safety part. If I believe, or you believe, that God is big and active and longs to show himself to his creation than how much more insulting could I be by praying safe prayers. These safe prayers show a lack of imagination, a lack of awe, a lack of trust. I have come to understand the words of Jesus when he says that "it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than it is for a camel to go through the eye of the needle." Luke-warm, apathetic, uninterested Christians are repulsive to God. These types of Christians lack much, but I believe almost all of them lack a vibrant, daring, faithful prayer life. May we overcome the apathy, overcome the passivity, overcome the arrogance. Through God's overwhelming Grace may we become people of prayer.