Isn't it a blessing that we have prayers going up for us? And that we can pray for others also? Our Pastor gave us a list last Sunday night of 159 names of lost folk for which we will be praying. Believe me, it takes a while to pray for that many people! I have quite a list of my own to go with it. So I want to pray the right way, don't you? But I am learning that prayer does not always have to be correct or even full of faith. Elijah's prayer (I Kings 18:20-40) teaches us that if we can just be truthful with God, that will be enough. I loved for my sweet man to pray for me and with me. He had such gracious sincerity and love for the Lord coming from his heart when he prayed. It was so honest. Sometimes we live under the burden of feeling like our prayers should follow a certain form. We forget that the best part is not that we are doing it, but that God hears us and wants to answer our prayers. Sometimes my prayers are so full of faith, and there are times they are weak like Elijah's after Mt. Carmel. On Mt. Carmel he had so much confidence, but shortly afterward he sat down under that tree and asked God to let him die. But God met him, fed him and pushed him on. Whether we are full of faith, or spiritually weak, He still hears us.
Matthew 7:11 "If ye, then being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him."
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