I believe that prayer is effective. I believe that God always hears, always answers, always moves in the hearts of his children. Sometimes God Speaks.
Maybe he always speaks, and only sometimes I hear.
Sometimes his voice is so loud and unexpectedly clear that I'm startled. Overwhelmed. Convicted. Revived from a stupor.
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I've been thinking about this lately. I feel like God has answered some prayers quite loudly, and others in a way that I can't see. It's hard for me to come to grips that prayer is a conversation, not composed of me giving God a list of requests of which he can either approve or disapprove, but is instead composed of a dialogue where God asks me to open up my thoughts and emotions and life to him and give him a chance to respond. If that that makes sense at all; I'm pretty tired right now.
A favorite philosopher of mine said "prayer is the very simple, very profound, very divine exchange between Jesus and our heart and intelligence transformed by grace."
I love that, because so often I want to "feel" something in prayer, but often there is nothing to be felt, and even more often I simply can't find any WORDS to pray with. The dialogue between our heart and His is often simple, and reaches depths that even words can't express. Sometimes, it is enough to simply BE in His presence. To be WITH Him. And this requires no words.
So Mary, what did He say? :)
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