How can we pray more fervently with a passion? I’ve been guilty for not praying until the crisis happens. I’ve been far too ill prepared to pray in public when I’ve been asked. I’m convicted that my light headed and hard hearted response to prayer is because I do not grasp the gravity of God listening. He is waiting for us to search for Him. He loves us far more than we imagine. Reading a few prayers of the praying saints of yesterday convince me that I need to pray from my heart. My heart needs to be enlarged. My view needs to expand to see Hos kingdom moving.
“If you compare the written prayers from the psalms, the Lord's Prayer, or those we find in the prayer books of the church, one thing will immediately strike any reader: The prayers from those sources are theologically rich and aesthetically appropriate. I cannot always say this of the spontaneous prayers of many Christians—and I am not impugning their motives or questioning their hearts.” - Scot McKnight, Praying with the Church
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