The whole idea of prayer has really been something that I have been mulling over lately. I have grown up praying. Before meals, at church, at night before I go to bed. But I'm not sure I fully understood or appreciated the power of prayer until this year.
The Lord has been teaching me many life lessons through my counseling sessions, including the importance and power of prayer. The significance of prayer is not something that was lost on me growing up, but to have my counselor literally pray over me at the end of every session, thanking God for not only what He has done, but for what He will do, and saying it with such conviction, really struck a chord with me. Through my sessions, I have realized that my prayers were often timid and quiet. Not bold or courageous at all. But God has instructed us to "come boldly to the throne of grace..." (Hebrews 4:16). I found myself saying just the other day, I've always prayed knowing, but I don't think I ever prayed truly BELIEVING that God would deliver wholly and completely on His promises to His children. Sure, I pray for good health, and healing, for the blessing to be brought together with my future spouse and children. But, when I pray for those things, do I really believe and know that God will make it happen? Am I confident in the fact that God will bring blessings in my new job, or that He is working in my heart, and the heart of my future spouse to bring us together? It seems like a small thing, the difference between knowing and believing, but I can attest that praying as if you were talking to God in the very room that you are sitting in, and speaking His word, His truths and His promises throughout prayers continues to reiterate and validate, and solidify the fact that God is going to bring goodness. He has before. He will again. So why on earth do I ever doubt? Why then, are my prayers timid and shy, and not bold - bold in asking for courage and strength that can surely be bestowed by the God of all my days?
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