Just like our cars, our prayer life needs regular maintenance.
Prayer is so simple, so familiar, yet so under utilized.
How often we say: “O God please.....” yet never say: “O God, what do you need from me today?”
We rely on God to hear our prayers. Even the ones we can’t speak but only think about.
We affirm that God is with us, and count on God’s presence to see us through the tough times.
Yet we rarely take the time to pause and converse with God about our life.
We are reluctant to learn the “common language” that’s used to communicate with God: Prayer.
Most of the time our prayers are like a one way monologue, all talking, rarely listening.
Yet God is always there, patiently waiting until we pause enough to listen. Until we put aside our agenda and shopping list of wants and needs and begin to hear the words Gods has in store for us.
It is like visiting a doctor, pouring out our ailments, then leaving before the remedy is offered.
Read again Chapter 11: 1-13 of the Gospel in Luke. And then reflect on your prayer life.
How could it become stronger? Could you use a spiritual mentor or prayer friend?
Have you learned the language well enough to be comfortable with it?
How Goes it with your soul?
Grace and Peace,
Pastor Terry
P.S. Don’t miss a single one of our “Relationship Series” in February.
Each of our Pastors have wonderful stories and real life faith living to share.
God hears us in our "heart language." That's the language we first learned at our birth. It's the one we most easily communicate in.
God also hears us with the "language of the heart."
That's the unsoken language that transcends words and human speech.
It's the language that comes when you don't have the words to say, your heart is broken beyond belief, or you are simply speechless.
The language is secondary. It's your desire to speak with God any way you can that is paramount.
Posted by: Pastor Terry | February 03, 2006 at 04:22 AM
Pastor Terry,
Do you think we should pray using a certian type of language or can we speak to God in the
same way we speak to each other? For example some people pray using more biblicle language than others. Is there a correct way of speaking during prayer? If so what is it and how can we know what it is?
Posted by: Geri | January 28, 2006 at 12:22 PM