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======Prayer Time III.======
Thursday, May 21, 2009.
What is happening when you pray? What is the time frame of your attention
and goals when you go into prayer? Are you basically targeting some particular
things you want to achieve lets say within some days or weeks? Do you
want God to give you something very particular? What is the key point in
your prayer?
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Our reasons for prayer can be very diverse. If we are ill, clearly we ask
God for healing, for improvement of our condition. Usually we have particular
things we need, we have particular fears, particular concerns which are
burdensome. It is somehow clear that we bring these things to God. But it
is also a question whether this is all, what is happening in our prayer.
If prayer is just a tool for us to formulate our needs, then we are missing
whole worlds, we are missing a complete universe of things! Prayer can be
an encounter with the living source of the universe. Prayer can be a time
for us to get to know God better - in combination with further times of
bible study and fellowship with other Christians this can be absolutely
brilliant. When we pray we go to God and stand before him - even if we don't
realize this, if we do not feel anything, he is there! Imagine you can
meet and learn from the wisest being which exists, from the source of
joy, the source of grace, the source of giving, the origin of creativity,
the origin of sunshine and thunder ... prayer is about being in the
presence of the him, who is beyond our wildest dreams!
God wants to meet us. He wants to be with us. He wants us to get to know
him. He will not force himself unto us, he wants us to be free and
self-conscious beings, images of him, who interact, who think, who find
their own way being in community with him, not string puppets, but real
persons. But he loves us, he is searching community - in prayer and beyond
prayer. Let us open the universe of God's presence!
[R.W.E.P., jesusnetwork.eu]
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