IMPORTANT PRAYER PRINCIPLES
Excerpt from ‘Meditation Moments’ by Virginia Brandt Berg
If you have a problem today, a great need in your life, maybe your problem is that you had done all the talking, but hadn't done any listening to God!
"Stop talking and listen for a while! Listen to God's Word! Be still and let Him speak to you.
When you get quiet and wait on Him, there will come a prompting from Him in a still small voice." Someone has also called it "A Divine Oughtness," that is, an impression that you ought to do a certain thing.
Some people think that effective praying means to keep on seeking and keep on knocking, to keep on talking and talking and asking God with a multitude of words, and an insistence in talking it out with Him!
This kind of prayer doesn’t show your trust & faith that He’ll answer, on the contrary, it shows your unbelief & lack of faith that He has heard you & the answer is on its way.
When you pray you don’t need to keep on asking, with so much talking and insistence on expressing yourself in words, but you need to keep on believing and keep on expecting and waiting! Waiting for God to answer!
Oh, the answer's there, God will answer! You know, prayer in its highest meaning is not pleading with God or demanding things, but it is communion with God, throwing your whole being open heavenward, God-ward, and waiting for the divine response.
A little word by Martha Snell-Nicholson:
Sometimes I do not even pray in words.I take my heart in my two hands,
And hold it up before the Lord.
I'm so glad He understands.
Sometimes I do not even pray in words.
My spirit bows before His feet,
And with His hand upon my head,
We just hold communion, silent, sweet.
Sometimes I do not pray in words,
For I am tired and long for rest.
And my heart finds all it needs,
Just resting on the Savior's gentle breast.
If you have prayed and had no answer yet, no answers come and it seems as if when you pray, the Heavens are brass and He's been deaf to your pleading cries, remember this:
No earnest sincere prayer to the heavenly Father has ever gone unanswered or been unnoticed. But it is also true that God has His time for all things in working out His purposes! God has strange ways of disciplining His intercessors and prayer warriors, and that takes time.
2 comments:
I agree , that at times when we pray and if there is no answer , it does not mean that He did not hear our prayer . We must discern and be patient . Once a friend of mine decided to go with a married man and I wanted to tell her not to do it . I was afraid maybe of loosing her as a friend . So I did the next best thing that I knew . I prayed for her and I ask God to help her decide and tell her that what she is about to do is wrong .
I think I prayed for a few days and one day she told me that she decided not to go ahead seeing the guy . I praised and thank God for that .
I think that we should all give time to God it does not matter for how long . I mean if we can go for parties , spend time wasting here and there , I am sure we also can spend time with God .
Friends of mine have different views . It's the modern times but I am very sure of one thing is it takes something to happen then they will flock back to God . God never fails us but we fail him and He forgives us. Amen.
Well said. Until something happens to them then only they will draw back to God. The "pull of the world" is indeed very strong, and we have to put on the "armour of God" for protection. And wait upon the Lord for revealations and answers.
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