Your day consisted of running errands all day, picking up and dropping off kids, nonstop movement. Or maybe it was the busiest most stressful day at the office this month. Whatever your day consisted of you just want to sit and let someone know how you feel, only a few minutes to express your thoughts on the day. Midway through the moment of expression is seems that on the receiving end the person listening isn't really listening, and maybe are only waiting for you to stop talking so they can tell you about their day, or their opinion. Ive been on both sides. When your spoken words fall on deaf ears you don't feel a lot of love. You begin to think that what happened to you doesn't matter to anyone. Let me tell you that your heavenly Father cares more than you or I can imagine. You might think i am exaggerating, maybe you think I am stressing an attribute past its truthfulness to raise my opinion over your doubts. If you have never been in the presence of God, never read His words and believed them, I could see how this could be a stretch. Your Creator has loved you long before the filling of the seas, and long before the birds or the trees. In the psalms it is written this way;
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.
God listens with care and love to every word that falls from your lips, not a one drops without Him hearing every syllable, and every cry that comes forth from your heart in distress Jesus brings to God with urgent delivery. Sinners pray pleading prayers, a hard day comes, a bone shatters, the hangover strikes early in the morning, and you pray for help, and promise to never do harm to anyone, or yourself again, only get me out of this mess i'm in. Ive been there many times before completely giving my life to Jesus, but once you truly know Jesus and the Father, it is a joy to commune with Him, it is the better part of my days, it brings healing to my soul, and substance to my being. If you are a follower of God and you still only pray when you're in trouble, and need His help, you need to find a way to enter in to a greater prayer life. Because that is life, a constant, never ending prayer to the One you love the most, between the coffee shop and the car, thanking God for blessings, while in the car cruising back to work, praising Him for salvation, hope and joy, waking in the morning, whispering 'Lord let heaven invade earth today, your will be done and not my own.' Pray without ceasing, and before you know it, it is no longer something you have to attempt, it just flows from your heart.
Frustration has been common in my prayer life many times. Some helpful advise that i heard recently struck a chord that has helped my prayers ring from my heart to God with a little more ease; do not compare yourself with the great men of prayer who prayed for hours a day, prayed for rain to cease and fall, prayed for revival that changed a land. You will only feel like your falling short. Let their prayers be your aim, and let your focus be on talking to your Father, just talk, tell Him what you think, whats bubbling up in your heart. Don't make it pretty, fancying and tucking your words to make them presentable. God already know whats on your heart, just say it. Lastly, read the psalms, jump around and skip twenty chapters or so each time, they all have different themes, and in there you will see how men that were close to God spoke to Him on a daily basis.
God loves you, take some time and find out what He is saying, write things down that you sense He is saying and impressing on your heart, pay attention to things around you, He speaks in many ways, and before you know it you will hear Him speak, or see signs of His hand at work around you, and realize He has been speaking all along. His spoken words filled the deep oceans and the skies, His voice brought life out of dust. Allow Him to speak living words into your life. Lets hear from God.
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