Pray and Listen Closely!

Howdy everybody!

                This week has been awesome, not only because this week’s topic for devotionals has been on Prayer but also my Chico State IV Christian group has been talking about Prayer too! I wanted to add a quick snippet about God, love, and then talk about Fear and Faith.

                In the second paragraph about a third the way down it says,

                                “Every breath on my lips and beat of my heart is a breath and beat of hope that I would PRACTIVE His Presence and be caught up in the mystery of who He is and what He’s SAYING and doing.”

I want to let it be known and share to everyone that God communicates differently to everyone. We all have a different language in which he talks to us. It is like a practice of always trying to hear what he is saying. We can probably all agree with saying, in some situations it is easier to hear him than others.

                Love- From the reading, Foster says, “If we genuinely love people, we desire for them far more than it is within our power to give, and that will cause us to pray.” I never thought of love being something more powerful than what we as humans can control. That is awesome and makes so much sense! And it says, “That will cause us to pray.” I guess when I pray I have never really thought about who I am praying for in the sense of what they mean to me (that sounds weird). What I am saying is that everyone we pray for we love! Weather it is friends, family, those in need, they are all our brothers and sisters in Christ and we pray for them because we LOVE them. SO CRAZY!

Lastly I wanted to talk about FEAR. Many times in this section fear has been brought up (fear, fearing, fearlessly, casting out fear, no fear in love, perfect love drives out fear, punishment in fear, etc.). My Chico IV group bible study has been talking a lot about fear and faith, how with these two words they can pretty much sum up how we live our lives with Christ. More often we recognize the fact of doing things out of fear and less out of faith, this makes no sense. I love how living out faith and past fear is done with prayer. But prayer relates back to my first idea of trusting god in which he talks to us all in different ways. When you pray, god will answer but remember sometimes it is harder to hear/see what he is communicating. Sometime we just have to dig a bit farther.

Bradikins