The Beauty of Prayer
Prayer is not just words spoken to God, it’s your heart reaching out for God. It is dialogue between you and the Father. Prayer is where the weary find rest and the broken can weep before the Lord. It’s not about performance or perfection, but about your relationship with the Lord. It is not a duty to get over and done with – it is personal time between you and the Lord. If you want your prayer life to come alive, then let’s go further together.
Spurgeon saw prayer as ‘that sweet converse which man holds with God, that state of nearness to God, in which our mutual secrets are revealed – our hearts open to Him, His heart being manifest to us’.
Spurgeon on the state of our hearts in prayer: ‘You must draw near to God … either in a lowly sense of His majesty, or in a delightful consciousness of His goodness, or in a ravishing sense of your own relationship to Him, or else your prayer is as worthless as chaff…’king for this same relationship?