By Lillian Penner
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“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5,6
Have you ever wondered why you need to pray when God knows your thoughts?
Prayer is deliberate communication with God. He knows our thoughts but He likes for us to communicate with Him frequently. Isn’t it wonderful that we can communicate with Him as we do with our friends? He speaks to us through His Word, which prompts us to interact with Him. When we have the Holy Spirit living within us, we have the ability to recognize His voice.
Satan tells us our prayers don’t matter because God is limited to what we think or God knows our thoughts, so we don’t need to pray. When we don’t know what to do or in situations that are too big for us to solve, God wants us to give Him an opportunity to display His power in our lives.
I have found that when I give my preconceived ideas and notions to God, His answers are far better than my preconceived ideas. If we ask God to get involved in our daily lives, follow His directions, we will see amazing results. When we pray we give God the opportunity to display His power in our lives. The same God who parted the Red Sea for the Israelites is at work today. God answers our prayers because of His great mercy and His love for us, not our good works.
When we pray we don’t have to listen to electronic messages before we get to talk to God. He doesn’t have voice mail. His line is never busy. We are not put on hold or hear the message, “All calls will be answered in the order received.” We don’t have to wait for God to take our call. We read in Isaiah 65:24, “While they are still speaking, I will hear.” However, He does not always answer our prayers immediately, sometimes we have to wait for His timing, but He does hear us while we are praying.
God has many blessings in store for us. He is patiently waiting for us to want the blessings enough to take the initiative to ask for them. Asking is the beginning of receiving. Have you ever thought about how many blessings you have missed because you have not asked? What a blessing it is when He answers even the little requests, like a parking place.
Questions: How many times have you asked God to specifically to bless you? How much time do you spend communing with God?
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September 21st, 2008 at 1:08 am
Dear Friends,
“Why do we pray?” Prayer is not only asking and talking to God?”Prayer” is a common term meaning meeting God! When we meet anyone we do not always ask them anything at all. We always want them to know that we know that they are with us, but we need to assure them whether we are with them? Similarly we know that God is with us, but are we with God too? That is the very reason we need to assure God too that we are with God! How do we do this? “Pray”! Here our prayer is not asking God anything nor wishing to talk to God? But we just want to be with God. God tells us to be still and know that I am God. First thing each morning we need to find a quite place in our home for God. There we may sit on a chair and be still and silent waiting for God within us! To be in God’s presence and to experience God’s Spiritual Oneness. In the beginning we may find it very difficult, though to just sit still and to be silent is very easy, but very quite difficult? Why are we very distracted with all sorts of thoughts and even fear? It is simply because, our enemy, the Satan is very disturbed and frightened, when we want to be with God. That is the only place on this whole world that Satan cannot enter. The presence of God! Take deep breath. Breath is Life and Life is God. Inhale and exhale to bring your high beta level, (about 13Hz to 30Hz EEC reading) that is usually associated with great anxiety, panic and a stressful consciousness to a Theta level (about 5Hz to 7Hz EEC reading) which is the slowest of brainwave pattens. A state of deep relaxation but a state that is open to a physical transformation into your spiritual-self. Enabling your soul within you to enter the Kingdom of God within you and to be in God’s Spiritual Presence and Oneness in that total stillness and silence for a duration of say about 20 to 30 minutes, first thing, each morning and as the last thing each evening, before retiring to bed. As said earlier, that it is very easy, but quite difficult.? God’s Divine will come into you and soon the ‘door’ to God’s Kingdom will be opened to you! It then will be like the eclipse of the sun, when the moon is between the sun and the earth. This enables the moon to be empowered with the light of the sun so too our soul will be enriched with the greater love for God and for one another, we humankind, with total humility and absolute truthfulness. Rome was not built in a day or two so too this type of prayer will not be experienced immediately. It will need the Divine Grace of God, through deep discipline and great perseverance. Taste and see God is Good!
Francis Andrew
September 29th, 2008 at 6:26 am
Happy Ramadan to everybody. Why this web site do not have other languages support?