Reverence and Awe

“Behold, he prayeth.“

I find it so comforting to think on the fact and be reminded that are prayers are heard instantly by the almighty God. When we are broken and hurting our tendency is to think that God is not listening. I think of Sarai and Abram as they were waiting for children from the Lord for all those years. I am sure she felt like God had left her alone and was not interested in her prayers and so she had Abram go into Hagar. The grace in this story is that God had planned all along to bring Isaac to them through Sarai. Had they been patient and trusted in God they would have never sinned to the degree that they did. We need to be reminded to trust in God and be patient with the timing of His answering of our prayers. Be anxious about nothing but with everything prayer and supplication.

“Their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.”

Not only is prayer essential it is often times the first spiritual practices that we fail on. I agree that we need to be in prayer always and be quick to bring our needs, desires and wants before the Lord. Prayer is such a big deal because and only because the God we pray to is sovereign and able to all that He desires. I love that picture that John Piper said about prayer being a war time walkie talkie. I can not think of any one I would want to have on my side in a battle than the most powerful sovereign in all the world. It should bring us great comfort and ease when we think about the God that we get to pray to.