I Believe in Prayer

I believe in prayer.

I believe it can give you influence where you don’t have relationship.

I believe it can give you opportunities where you have not been established.

I believe it can give you favor where you have not invested.

I believe it can give you success where you have no experience.

I believe it can give you promotion where you have no seniority.

I believe it can give you direction where you have no map.

I believe it can give you healing when you have no medicine.

I believe it can give you clarity where there is no information.

When you pray you are sending your thoughts, your emotions, your desires and your concerns to the throne of God. You are asking the Creator of all things to listen to your perspective and wonder of wonder, He does it. No other meditation, no other stillness, no other positive thought process, has such power and potential as prayer.

I have heard some say God isn’t interested in our small existence and that to bother Him with our daily contemplations is a waste of His time and ours, but everything in creation points to a different conclusion.

He created oceans and mountains and rain and clouds and somehow in all of the majesty he feeds sparrows every single day.

He created hot and cold, lava and glaciers and yet found it good to produce tiny springs, at perfect temperatures, that feed the deer and antelope in the hills.

He created vast deserts and put just enough life in them to allow lizards and cactus to thrive.

He created forests where individual trees are so large you could drive a car through the middle of them, but made the seeds so small a child could carry that forest in his hand. His great pride and joy is in our small existence because He knows exactly what He created us to do.

God is intentional, and in that characteristic is His desire to see us become intentional. He puts small seeds of success in us that have the potential to outlast the dry seasons, outmaneuver the perils along the way and find ourselves protected, provided for and promised for great things. For us, unlike nature, it is not a cycle of life, or instinctual behavior that grows us best, our best chance at a great life is through prayer. Our ability to reason does not designate us to only those things we are capable of. Instead it is that very ability to reason that leads us to the eventual conclusion that we cannot do it all, nay, we can do nothing, without Him.

I am not a big person. I don’t mean my physical size, I mean my mark on the world. I am known by a handful in the scheme of things and when I’m gone, there will be little left to signify I ever existed. My earthly years are but a breath, yet He has put purposes within me that are meant to effect eternity.

I believe prayer is my portal to significance both here and hereafter. I believe prayer is my greatest sanctuary and my strongest weapon. I believe prayer is my richest treasure and my humblest gift.
Prayer bends me low, and simultaneously raises me to the ear of God.

When I pray I am not knocking on heaven’s door, I’m present at the throne of God. I persist by staying at His feet. I am always receiving. My request may not be granted as I want, but I am always better for staying in His presence. Always.

When I pray I am not clutching at a distant hope, I am bathing my soul in assurance. I am sure of Him. I am sure of His attention, and I am sure of His love. He listens, He attends to me, He is not surprised at, ashamed of, annoyed with or ignorant of me. He loves my presence and I am sustained by His.

I believe that every good and perfect gift can only be attributed to God’s grace.

I believe prayer is less about receiving those gifts and more about gaining the eyes to see them.

I have seen prayer drive back death and felt it melt away bondage and I will forever love the gift and the Giver of prayer.

I believe in prayer.