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- I
am not much of a cryer. But I can honestly say that if you have
never wept in prayer, your prayer life needs an overhaul.
There is a certain collecting
of the inner person that happens in private prayer. It cannot
happen behind the wheel of the car when you are driving, and
it cannot happen when you are doing dishes. Those are great times
to pray, but they are not times when the whole being can collect
and come before the Lord with all physical and other faculties.
No one who is a valiant prayer
warrior experiences tears in every prayer time. But I am here
to tell you that there is a certain kind of prayer that exceeds
the human capacity to express in anything but tears. I happens
while praying in one's own language - not the unknown ones. And
the Lord is moved by it. I happen to believe that those tears
are the ones that will be among those counted most precious in
the verse that refers to the bottle of your tears that
the Lord has collected.
- The things
I pray about that result in moments like I am describing are
those when I consider in prayer the Lord's love for me, and that
I am privileged to even know about prayer. When I pray for the
lost, often I am almost unable to speak for a time. When I pray
for my family, and particularly for those I consider to be my
spiritual children, there is an expression that cannot be contained.
- Most
prayer is business - work. But it is never just that. Tell the
Lord you want to know the adventure of prayer!
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