Prayers are not op-ed pieces…

Prayers are not op-ed pieces…

From the heart flows the matters of life – is that where your prayers come from?

Or are your prayers op-ed pieces to the Lord providing your opinions and defense of your positions? Do you use logic integrated with man’s wisdom to order your requests and supplications to the Lord? Do your prayers seek to justify your desires and wants based upon the trappings of this world?

Do you actively seek the Lord’s heart in the matters that you bring before His throne? And are you willing to wait for His hand to move upon them? Is it your passion to see the Lord Jesus glorified in and through your prayer life? What part does scripture play in your prayers?

Do you groan and know not what to pray and then allow the Holy Spirit to lead you? Are you willing to wait and listen for His still small voice? And once you have heard His voice are you willing and able to promptly act upon His words?

Oh the wonder that is prayer and the great honor and privilege that our Lord has offered to us that we might boldly come before His throne at any time with our adoration, our confession, our thanksgiving, our supplication – the invitation to walk and talk with Him about the issues of life, of eternity.

May our prayers be a testament to our faith and our trust in the Lord. Might we desire to move beyond the op-ed prayers of our day and delve deeply into the living water that refreshes and brings life – the true things of life that spring forth from the deepest longings of our changed hearts – and glorify the One True and Living God…


'If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, from his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'
(John 7:37-38)