Hi
Ever lost your pray? Consider today’s Holy Nougat
““When you pray, don’t babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again.” Matthew 6:7 NLT
Sometimes it happens because we prayed and the response we expected isn’t what we got (aka unanswered prayers). You might not have experienced such, but I tell you, it can cripple a person unexpectedly. And, it might cost us our pray.
It could be that persons who ought to do right continue to get away with wrong as though they are right. And the ones they’ve wronged are left broken and wounded; with little or no acknowledgement of the wrong that was done to one. And though the devil is a liar; we might just forget our pray.
Or we might have been the ones accused, tried, and imprisoned or crucified. And while previously the world turned a blind eye (or not) to others, no one seems to be blind or it’s once again proven unfair … God seemed not to have heard. It’s happened like that to others before, we might find we cannot pray.
Of course, life is not quite simple and sometimes in the course of disappointment, injustice and being forsaken, we find we are overcome. And in our choices, forgetting and overwhelmedness, the distance gets wider without our realizing what happened. We’ve lost our way, we’ve wavering faith, and we only repeat ourselves when we pray.
But my dears have no fear it’s at that moment our Jesus steps in. Whether we’re faking, mumbling, repetitive or even omitting to pray, we can even return to saying the Lord’s Prayer. Whether as itself or as pattern, in our hearts or out loud, in it we can repair our broken God relationship; and we will find we’ve found our pray.
Holding on to things we cannot keep or change is not healthy for anyone. And if it costs us intimacy with Jesus, please let’s walk away. I urge us unless using our prayer language to listen to ourselves when we pray. Not only that we listen, but to also Think about what we want to say to God, and say it. And guard our hearts from disappointment, distress, or disaster – for in matters of prayer they can be distractions – unless we plan to be real and mention each of them when we pray.
Lastly (for today), I remind us that prayer is really a conversation with the Ultimate Lover of our souls. There’s nothing we cannot take to God in prayer. For even if we have wronged God again and again, God will forgive us (and has done so) time after time – If we go back to God in repentance. That too is prayer.
So, if we’ve lost our pray; don’t lose hope. Our God hasn’t given up on us. A simple cry from our hearts to God’s presence is all it takes to find our pray.
God bless you
In Christ’s love and grace . . .
