Super Awesome Powers
The title of this entry has nothing to do with the content of this entry. I just wanted to let you know up front so you didn't get any false hopes. So here I am writing. Blog blog blog, all day long. Blog blog blog as I write this song.
Sometimes I don't feel like writing. Or I want to but I don't know what I want to write about. Or maybe I feel like my heart isn't in it. Those feel like really good excuses, but I don't know if it is. I think sometimes we feel like that about prayer. That we don't know what to pray about, or our heart isn't in it. What a lame excuse. "But, Taylor, if my heart is not in it how can I be genuine?" Is your heart genuinely not in it? Yes? Then you can genuinely pray that God get your heart into it. No? Then you just lied to me and you need to ask God for forgiveness.
Thomas Paine said, "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly."I think our prayers are something we feel we can obtain too cheap. We have to work for our relationship with Christ. Do we honestly think doing nothing, not pushing through, is going to enhance our relationship?
Never stop praying. Ephs. 6:18 1 Thess. 5:17
I've heard that some people have a problem with public prayer. They don't like to do it because it feels fake. To me it seems fake when my focus is not on Christ. It's like talking through someone to talk to someone else. We talk in prayer as another way to talk to the audience. Public prayer should be about getting us lined up together to share in communication and petition. If we pray without stopping, when it's time to openly pray, it should be like a different mode of the same thing. "But, Taylor, what if I don't feel genuine?" See my answers from above.
"But what if I don't know what to pray for?" Then be silent. Why can't public prayer be silent. Why can't you just say, "Jesus, only you know what we are feeling. Listen to our hearts...[longs silence] ...Amen."?
We get this idea that prayer is simply about words. Or about saying the right things. "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express."-Romans 8:26
Sometimes when I write, it isn't that good because I don't even know what I am trying to express, but in prayer the Holy Spirit knows beyond what I can even know.
Sometimes I don't feel like writing. Or I want to but I don't know what I want to write about. Or maybe I feel like my heart isn't in it. Those feel like really good excuses, but I don't know if it is. I think sometimes we feel like that about prayer. That we don't know what to pray about, or our heart isn't in it. What a lame excuse. "But, Taylor, if my heart is not in it how can I be genuine?" Is your heart genuinely not in it? Yes? Then you can genuinely pray that God get your heart into it. No? Then you just lied to me and you need to ask God for forgiveness.
Thomas Paine said, "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly."I think our prayers are something we feel we can obtain too cheap. We have to work for our relationship with Christ. Do we honestly think doing nothing, not pushing through, is going to enhance our relationship?
Never stop praying. Ephs. 6:18 1 Thess. 5:17
I've heard that some people have a problem with public prayer. They don't like to do it because it feels fake. To me it seems fake when my focus is not on Christ. It's like talking through someone to talk to someone else. We talk in prayer as another way to talk to the audience. Public prayer should be about getting us lined up together to share in communication and petition. If we pray without stopping, when it's time to openly pray, it should be like a different mode of the same thing. "But, Taylor, what if I don't feel genuine?" See my answers from above.
"But what if I don't know what to pray for?" Then be silent. Why can't public prayer be silent. Why can't you just say, "Jesus, only you know what we are feeling. Listen to our hearts...[longs silence] ...Amen."?
We get this idea that prayer is simply about words. Or about saying the right things. "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express."-Romans 8:26
Sometimes when I write, it isn't that good because I don't even know what I am trying to express, but in prayer the Holy Spirit knows beyond what I can even know.
posted by Taylor Mosbey | 10:32 AM
3 Comments:
read a book recently dealing with the 4 parts of prayer; 1) i speak, 2) God listens, 3) God speaks, 4) i listen. author contended we don't spend too much time in active 4.
if any.
I would agree.
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