“pray continually” – 1 Thessalonians 5:18
In his book “Praying Backwards: Transform Your Prayer Life by Beginning in Jesus' Name” author Bryan Chapell writes: “I have enjoyed watching a baker decorate a cake with an icing pipe. The icing is globbed into the tube as a yucky, unformed mess. But that’s not the end of the process. Attached to the end of the pipe is a decorator tip. When the baker forces the icing through the tip, the mess gets shaped into intricate designs that make the cake beautiful. The Holy Spirit similarly helps my prayers. I glob my desires into my prayers. I do not intend to make a mess of things, but with my mixed motives and limited vision, I have no assurance that my prayers match God’s design. In fact, I would hesitate to pray at all if my prayers were God’s only direction for accomplishing his purposes. Were my prayers truly capable of binding God’s hands, I would be dangerous. My finite, fallible will cannot devise the best course for the universe. Still, I pray because I believe the Holy Spirit works like that decorator tip. He forms my prayers into God’s beautiful design for all things.”
The Lord desires to hear from us continually as we live our lives. Today in prayer, open your heart to the Lord and talk to Him in prayer.
“Conversational prayer is a dialogue with God, not a monologue to God.” – Mark Stepherson
God’s Word: “giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,” – Ephesians 5:20
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