Unembarrassed Interchange...

Prayer. It's more than desperate plea cries to God in times of distress. And so much more than a one-sided conversation or a bargaining device. As believers, most of us are convinced of this. We all know that prayer is vitally important. But how many of us sense the shallowness of our inner experience? We yearn for intimacy with God, yet many times our prayers just feel hollow. We wonder why has God turned a deaf ear toward us? We wonder, why doesn't he respond? Why? These questions are real. We can't just magically make them go away. But we cannot allow ourselves to forget that God is a person. And deep in His mighty nature, He thinks. He loves. He celebrates. He feels. He desires. He suffers. And prayer is the unembarrassed interchange of, Thoughts. Love. Ideas. Desires. between God and the soul of the redeemed. Prayer is not about the words. Prayer is not about where we do it or how often we do it. It's not about the posture of our hands or whether we do it on our knees. Prayer is an encounter with God. Prayer is a relationship with our Creator. Prayer is aliveness to God. Prayer is the vital breath of the believer's soul. This is not intended to be a guilt-trip. It's just an attempt to say that we are created to enjoy sacred communion with God. And we can enjoy the mysterious mingling of our personality with God's personality. He meant us to see Him and live with Him and draw our life from His life. But that cannot happen in the fullness that Christ offers without... prayer.