P.R.A.Y.

Wow. Today I learned a whole lot of greatness. It's always a struggle for me to be up and ready for the Matrix (bible study) at 6 am. Luckily, I live three minutes away so I don't have to leave ten minutes before for a drive. Well today we learned about prayer. Praise Repent Asking Yielding. It was such a huge blessing for me to be there and listen to this. Some important questions that were being asked were: 
1.) How do we do it? By being in the Word of God?
2.) Are we asking in God's will?
3.) Are we asking knowing that God's going to answer it?
4.) Are we listening to God or are we answering our own prayers?


There were many questions that were brought to my attention today that really helped me examine my prayer life and certain parts of it that need to change. One amazing quote the speaker had quotes from someone else was, " We do not pray because we do not have enough faith that God will answer our prayers." Wow. As much as I hate to admit that, it is so true. I know deep within my heart that there are definitely times where I choose not to pray to God about certain things not necessarily because I don't have enough faith but because I just don't think His answer will be yes. Does that make any sense? Well we sang "Come ye sinners" with the thoughts in our hearts about what we had just learned about prayer and some lyrics that really stuck out in my head were:

"I will arise and go to Jesus. He will embrace me in His arms. In the arms of my dear Savior,Oh, there are ten thousand charms. Come ye weary, heavy-laden, Lost and ruined by the fall. If you tarry until you're better, you will never come at all"

Maybe the way I interpreted the song, for myself at least, isn't fully correct, but singing these words after such a powerful teaching on prayer gave me the assurance that talking to God, whether big or small, He will embrace us and ready with love, to show us the way. Have a lovely day!