“Our Father...” (Luke 11:2)
Tell your heavenly Father what is on your mind and in your heart. Although He already knows, He wants you to tell Him. Great men in the Bible – such as Job, Abraham, Moses, and Joshua – told God exactly what they thought. He responded, and He blessed them.
When we express ourselves to our heavenly Father (in Jesus’ name as we are instructed) He hears us. If we expect to hear Him, we should give Him honest communication.
There was a woman who was bitter because she could not have a baby. She cried until she was sore. She prayed. All the feelings in her heart she poured out to the Lord. “O Lord of hosts,” she prayed, “if Thou will indeed look on the affliction of Thine handmaid...” (I Samuel 1:11) Her name was Hannah. As she knelt in the temple in Jerusalem, she prayed with her heart. Her lips moved, but no words came out. Eli, the priest, thought she was drunk.
She promised God that if she could be given a son she would give him to the Lord. When she went back home, she and her husband Elkanah tried again. “The Lord remembered her.” (I Samuel 1:19) And she called her son Samuel, who became God’s prophet and the last ruler-judge of Israel. He anointed Israel’s first king, Saul, and Israel’s greatest king, David.
The Bible has some wonderful promises related to prayer such as this one: “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” (Matthew 21:22)
Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any merry? Let him sing psalms.
Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (James 15:13-16)
Nowhere in the Bible is there a verse that forbids us from respectfully pouring our hearts out to our Father as we take a walk, lie in bed, or drive home from work. Instead, God’s word says, “Pray without ceasing.” (I Thessalonians 5:17) As our warm, caring Father. God wants to have a loving, personal relationship with us.
About Me
- Mary Lou Cheatham
- Hi. How are you? I’d like for you to read my blogs. One is called CollardPatch.blogspot.com. A few years ago, I started cooking collard greens and cooked them for two years. I fixed collards every way I could and published recipes and a cookbook about collards. It’s out of print, but people started calling me the collard queen and going to my collard patch blog. In the meantime, I wrote other books, mostly historical fiction with a vital element of family and a sprinkling of romance. My latest book, All Her Dreams of Love, will soon be released on Amazon. It’s a romance taking place in the 1880s in Mississippi. A woman waits for her husband to return. She watches for him faithfully. Will he return? She goes looking for him. Meanwhile, other men seek her company.