Daily Devotionals by Ardith Keef

     "Ye have not because ye ask not. . ."  
     Our concept of what God can and will do is often just that - a concept. With the mind, we imagine the limits and possibilities, and when we veer from being led in prayer by the Holy Spirit we pray only according to human imagination, which of course is without a frontier.
     The Soldier of the Cross who is willing to be a living sacrifice must submit also to being trained in prayer. Often there is little prayer because we can not thank of what to ask.
     But He who knows the end as well as the beginning has designed it so that we must learn by leaning. Leaning on those Everlasting Arms.
     Not for the answer alone, but for the request as well.

     Lord, please! Do the thing in me that will make me submit in prayer and learn to listen more acutely to the desires of your heart rather than mine. I long to be available in a new and deeper way to pray forth the agenda of heaven.
     Let me see you more clearly and recognize you more quickly, Oh Lord, My Strength and My Redeemer.