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<\/a>Think about your conversations with God.\u00a0 Do they consist mainly of a recitation of circumstances you want to have changed and things you want to receive?\u00a0 Maybe you include the health and well-being of others you care about — but are your prayers mostly about you?\u00a0 I\u2019ve been reading through my prayer journal, and I can\u2019t escape the sad fact that most of it consists of moaning about me.<\/p>\nGood thing that God loves me.\u00a0 Otherwise He wouldn\u2019t put up with me at all!<\/p>\n
So let\u2019s look at prayer from the opposite direction for a moment.\u00a0 What does God want to hear?<\/p>\n
We have a clue.\u00a0 The book of Psalms is a collection of prayers.\u00a0 We can see in them the things God longs to hear from His children.\u00a0 There is plenty of moaning. That\u2019s okay!\u00a0 God wants to hear the burdens of your heart, and the perfect place to take your concerns is before the Almighty God who can do something about them!<\/p>\n
But the Psalms also are about confession, praise, thanksgiving, rehearsing God\u2019s wonderful attributes in His presence, and, most of all, expressions of love.\u00a0 Don\u2019t know how to pray?\u00a0 Open to Psalms and start praying those prayers to Him from your heart.\u00a0 You will be speaking the words He most wants to hear!<\/p>\n
Oh — and you might also try being quiet and listening for a change.\u00a0 It\u2019s very likely that God has something He would like to say to you, if\u00a0 you would only stop and pay attention.<\/p>\n
Eating to live and living for Christ,<\/p>\n
Susan Jordan Brown<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Think about your conversations with God.\u00a0 Do they consist mainly of a recitation of circumstances you want to have changed and things you want to receive?\u00a0 Maybe you include the health and well-being of others you care about — but are your prayers mostly about you?\u00a0 I\u2019ve been reading through my prayer journal, and I can\u2019t escape the sad fact that most of it consists of moaning about me.<\/p>\n