I have to share this.

“There is a story told about a Jewish farmer who did not get home before sunset one Sabbath and was forced to spend the night in the field, waiting for sunrise the next day before being able to return home. Upon his return home he was met by a rather perturbed rabbi who chided him for his carelessness. ‘What did you do out there all night in the field?’ the rabbi asked him. ‘Did you at least pray?’ The farmer answered: ‘Rabbi, I am not a clever man. I don’t know how to pray properly. What I did was to simply recite the alphabet all night and let God form the words for himself.’”*

What wisdom! Occasionally, a person impressed by another’s prayer has said to me, “I wish I could pray like that.” My feeling is that you’re not supposed to pray like someone else. You’re supposed to pray like yourself. It’s not about coming up with beautifully crafted prayers. In fact, there are times when you don’t know what to say at all. God can figure out what you want to say. You just have to have the intention to pray.

God is always waiting for us to show up in prayer. I don’t mean going to a particular place, but acknowledging the presence of God everywhere and allowing ourselves to respond to that presence. Maybe its words or song or just being silent. Maybe it is just saying the alphabet and letting God figure it out.

Prayer is simple. Just do it.

Read Romans 8:26-27 and remember: God loves YOU unconditionally.

 Wayne

“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.”
Romans 8:26-27

Posted in October of 2017