Reaching Out To God.
After all these years, I still don't fully understand prayer. It's something of a mystery to me. However, one thing I know: When we are in desperate need, prayer springs naturally from our lips and from the deepest level of our hearts.
When we are frightened out of our wits, when we are pushed beyond our limits, when we are pulled out of our comfort zones, when our well-being is challenged and endangered, we reflexively and involuntarily resort to prayer "Help, Lord!" is our natural cry.
Author Eugene Peterson wrote: "The language of prayer is forged in the crucible of trouble. When we can't help ourselves and call for help, when we don't like where we are and want out, when we don't like who we are and want a change, we use primal language, and this language becomes the root language of prayer."
Prayer begins in trouble, and it continues because we are always in trouble at some level. It requires no special preparation, no precise vocabulary, no appropriate posture. It springs from us in the face of necessity and, in time, becomes our habitual response to every issue-good and bad-we face in this life (Philippians 4:6). What a privilege it is to carry everything to God in prayer! God's help is only a prayer away.
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