Good Morning Devotional I have an amazing announcement to make: it is impossible to stink at prayer! Don’t laugh! If you had asked me ten or twenty years ago to evaluate my spiritual life, I would have told you that I stink at prayer, and I had pretty much resigned myself to that fact. But change does happen, and now I firmly believe that, although we may feel like we stink at prayer at times, God gladly receives our words. Any prayer is a gift to him, for it means we are talking to him. I believe that when we recognize God is always with us—and he is—every breath can be a prayer. Prayer is not just a few sentences we say to God while on our knees. Prayer is the living out of our ongoing, every-moment commitment to God. And listen to this. God hears all our prayers, the good and the bad. He is big enough to handle our honest questions, our doubts, and even our anger. God receives our thankful prayers and the not-so-thankful ones, the eloquent ones and the less-than perfect ones. He accepts our joyful and self-confident prayers as well as our anguished questioning when we experience trauma or loss. I’ve gone to God when I was afraid, angry, and therefore very honest. It felt good to relate to God in that authentic way—and I could never go back to my old, edited, controlled prayers. Real relationship demands intimate dialogue. Know that God accepts all our prayers because when we pray, we acknowledge our belief that God is in control.
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:57:41 +0000
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