August 1, 2010
--Matthew 6:7
We must develop confidence in simple, believing prayer. We need the
confidence that even if we simply say, "God, help me," He hears and
will answer. We can depend on God to be faithful to do what we have
asked Him to do, as long as our request is in accordance with His will.
Too often we get caught up in our own works concerning prayer.
Sometimes we lose sight of the fact that prayer is simply conversation
with God. The length or volume or eloquence of our prayer is not the
issue, it is the sincerity of our heart and the confidence we have that
God hears and will answer us that is important. Sometimes we try to
sound so devout and elegant that we get lost. If we could ever get
delivered from trying to impress God, we would be a lot better off.
Several years ago God caused me to realize that when I had occasion to
pray out loud in front of other people, I really was not talking to Him
at all. I was actually trying to impress those listening with my
eloquent, spiritual-sounding prayer. Simple, believing prayer comes
straight out of the heart of the one praying and goes straight to the
heart of God.
First Thessalonians 5:17 says, Be unceasing in prayer [praying
persever-ingly] or as the King James Version puts it, Pray without
ceasing. If we don't understand simple, believing prayer, that
instruction can come down upon us like a very heavy burden. We may feel
that we are doing well to pray thirty minutes a day, so how can we
possibly pray without ever stopping? We need to have such confidence
about our prayer life that prayer becomes just like breathing, an
effortless thing that we do every moment we are alive. We don't work
and struggle at breathing, unless we have a lung disorder, and neither
should we work and struggle at praying. don't believe we will struggle
in this area if we really understand the power of simple, believing
prayer. We should remember that prayer is made powerful by the
sincerity of it and the faith behind it.
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