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- When I was
seven years old, my mother went to pray with an old lady in New
Jersey. ( She must have been at least forty-five!).
I have never forgotten the
experience because about five minutes into the praying, the phone
rang, and before the woman got up from her knees, she said "Excuse
me Lord, I should probably get this call."
I was struck with her sense
of actually having an audience with the Lord, and even more so
when she apologized to Him upon returning to her kneeling position.
Since few Christians actually
kneel together and pray in earnest desperation for much of anything,
there is seldom a sense of God listening.
This precious treasure comes
by example. You can tell a child a million times that God hears
him, but if he hears you praying to a listening
Lord, he will always have that clear awareness that the seconds
and minutes and hours of prayer cannot be dawdled away by wool-gathering
or pompous and puffy
- self-entertainment.
A person ought to be before
the Lord as he would in an audience with One far more glorious
and able than any human power.
We all know this.
- Yet, if
we really believed it, and if we really searched the scriptures
enough to have even a tiny dot of a glimpse into His infinite
ability and desire to bless, personal prayer would flourish and
prayer meetings would go on for hours (which, by the way the
did when I was a child).
God longs for a praying Church.
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