Now, I have this friend named Allison (I told you, she will pop up a lot in my blog!) There is a little something I have learned from her: SHE PRAYERS FOR ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING! I have so many times been with her when people will tell her of unfortunate situations they or someone they know is going through. Her response is alway, "Well, lets pray about it!" I know you can and should pray for whatever your hearts or God's desire is, but she really puts prayer into a class all its own. For example, she needed body wash and shampoo, her prayer consisted of (Lord, bring me shampoo and bodywash, thank you) She wanted new make-up "God, bring me make up, thank you." A friend of ours is scared to take risks, she urged me to pray on her "Just Roll With it" These prayers are SO extremely simple. They remind me that you DO NOT NEED to write out a story for the sake of prayer. Nothing is ever gonna be TOO big for God to handle, or TOO small for Him to not care about. All God wants you to do is put it in His hands.
I think that people misunderstand the meaning and the purpose behind praying . I know I have sometimes been ashamed of praying silly little prayers. For example, I would NEVER have prayed for God to send make-up to me, or to bring me bodywash and shampoo. I would've dealt with it or scrounged up change or borrowed money from my mom and dad. I would have felt so silly praying for something that ...easy. I think that Christians and especially non-Christians, think prayer time needs to be saved for when there is a major problem, death, sickness, rough times, etc. But I feel like God did not intend for prayer to be reserved for when times are tough. He wants you to bring EVERYTHING to Him. When people pray, they mostly pray for the serious, I say let's start a PRAYER REVOLUTION!!! Let's start praying for something so little you wouldn't even think about praying for it! I'm gonna make my prayer list out right now! Everything I hope that God will bring and do with my life! And I'm gonna pray for it. I can't promise that He will answer every or even any of these prayers, but I say what's the harm in trying!? PRAYER REVOLUTION HERE I COME!!!!!
Easter
16 years ago
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This is a long comment but, I have a couple of things to share for the REVOLUTION =)
ReplyDeleteOn 7-3-2009 I prayed for enlightenment about prayer and The Lord led me to some interesting scripture. My notebook from that day reads a little like a list of steps:
Chronicles 16:
16:9 – “Tell of all his wonderful acts”
16:12 – “Remember the wonders he has done”
16:23 – “Sing to the Lord, all the earth: proclaim his salvation day after day.
16:34 – “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; His love endures forever.
16:35 – “Cry out, “save us, O God our savior; gather us & deliver us from the nations”
16:36 – “Then all the people said ‘AMEN’ & ‘PRAISE THE LORD’
I believe God was outlining for me personally ALL the steps to a prayer. I found that most times I prayed it sounded like Chronicles 16:35. “Oh God please help me with this, Oh Lord please do that, Lord please fix this…” Now I try to run down the whole list ending my prayers with Thank You Jesus AMEN.
4 days later 7-7-2009 I was on a Christian retreat where the Lord blessed me by driving his “prayer list” point home. The room was full of people all in the midst of deep prayer. The room was BOOMING with weeping, crying, prayers of O God our savior SAVE US!! It sounded like a loud mess of incoherent voices and I FELT deeply sorrowful. My chest almost caved in from the sounds of so much pain. Then all of a sudden the crying prayers moved with smooth transition into the most powerful chorus of Amazing Grace I’ve ever been witness to. All those voices praying that song in unison… every word heard crystal clear. God said to me in that instant “See Allison? This is why I love to hear prayer in song as well. You can cry out to me but remember I know all of your prayers before you even pray them so won’t I answer them just the same if prayed in tears as I would if prayed in song?”
God gave me his ears for a brief moment and I can attest that Singing to the Lord & Telling of His Wonderful Acts is a GLORIOUS prayer to His ears.