Friday, September 27, 2019

Praying from the heart!

I love this beautiful verse in Lamentations 3:41 -- "Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens."  When I read it, I picture myself looking up to my Heavenly Father with my heart in my hands -- loving Him, praising Him, worshiping Him, and thanking Him for saving a sinner like me!  Perhaps we need to remember that God listens more closely to our hearts than the phrases from our lips.  We must lift up our hearts to the Lord, not just our hands or our voices.  Then He will hear in heaven!

In this busy day in which we live, our minds crowded with the cares of life -- if we are not careful, it is very easy to let our prayers become rather routine and repetitious, but I like these two little quotes:
     "Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue."
     "You have not prayed until your heart has talked."

We need to feel as the Psalmist felt in Psalm 42:1: "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God."  Our prayers must also come from a believing heart.  We read in James 1:6-7 --
     "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.  For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord."
Then we read again in James 5:16, this wonderful promise --
     "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."

So as we look to the coming Lord's Day, may the Lord help us to pray effectually, earnestly and fervently for His glory and the upbuilding of His Kingdom! 

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