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 ====== Pray in Secret ... ======
-Wednesday, August 30, 2017.
+Wednesday, August 30, 2017.  God is real. And we can talk to him. We can pray, tell him
+our needs, our dreams, our wishes, our sorrows. God is there, he listens, he hears.
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-**  God sees ...**
+**  God cares ...**
+God wants us to talk to him. He wants a relationship. You might think, he knows everything
+anyway. Yes, he does. But he wants ujs to involve him. He wants me to tell him, and then
+start to discuss the issues of my life!
+Jesus talks about prayer in his famous sermon on the mount. He talks about prayer
+as a place between me and God alone. It is there to communicate, to talk and to listen.
+Let us read from Matthew 6:
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-** Your heart ...**
+** Reward ...**
+God is called "our father". And Jesus talks about the reward of prayer. Our relationship to
+God is not on an equal level. We are kids, he is the father. He is the eternal God. He is
+good. He is all-knowing. He is all-powerful. He is the creator. We are humans. We are made
+in his image - reflecting his majesty. But still: we are limited, we are creation, we are
+dependent on him. He has life by himself, we are mortal beings.
+Yet, in all of this, God wants to listen to us. He wants us to tell him. He wants us to
+pray, to ask him. When we do not ask, we will not receive. But when we ask, he will give
+us good things.
+Prayer is an honour. We have an encounter with the boss of the universe. We can talk to
+him privatly, without any other people around. We can tell him, and we can ask him. He has
+promised wisdom to us. He has promised to hear, and to provide all we need. What a fantastic
+situation we are in! You lucky guy ...
 (Roland Potthast)
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