A Kneeling Heart
Hello Bride of Christ,
The basics of Christianity consist of praying, reading your bible, and fellowshipping. When a Christian makes these three habits customary they walk with unshakeable faith. Yet, various reasons allow these disciplines to go unpracticed for years in a Christian’s life. Today, let us put our excuses aside and look at prayer closer.
“To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.” Psalm 25:1
Prayer means conversing with God and addressing Him directly. Other cultures practice liturgical and ceremonial prayers and appeals to their deities. However, Christian (Judeo-Christian) prayer communicates with a God attentive to listen, instead of a distant deity. The Judeo-Christian faith starts with a prayer of repentance, confessing sin, and accepting Jesus’ work on the cross providing direct access to Father God. Christian faith starts and sustains through prayer. In the New Testament, Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2), demonstrates the custom of prayer.
“Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.” (Mark 1:35)
Mark captured a morning habit of our Savior. Jesus rising early to enter the presence of His Father to talk. If Jesus needed to communicate with God to sustain His life and ministry while walking on this earth, how much more do we? Do not be deceived.
Prayer allows us to receive the truth of the gospel.
Prayer invites the Holy Spirit to reside within us.
Prayer asks the Holy Spirit to illuminate the Holy Scriptures.
Prayer requests for our needs.
Prayer aligns our hearts with God’s desires.
Prayer keeps us humble.
How do we pray?
Good news, no required formula. No memorization of rote words or phrases! No required specific location. Whether driving, running, sitting, or laying, acknowledge God and His presence. Spoken or silent, invite God into the moment. When needing a prayer visual, observe David’s Psalms.
Bride of Christ, sing along with David in Psalm 25:1, “To You, O Lord, I lift my soul.” A prayer. Let us not lift our souls to another. Let us come before our loving God in humility. In prayer, He meets us and reveals our hearts' desires, thoughts, and intents. In prayer, He creates in us a new nature. First, we need to kneel our hearts to sing, as David, “Show me Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day.” (Psalm 25:4-5) Amen. Now rise and go tell the world about your Jesus with whom you spent time.
