Prayer: Communicating with God

King David once told his Creator, "O God, you are my God; early I will seek You" (Psalm 63:1). He also disclosed that he regularly prayed to God at least three times per day: "Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice" (Psalm 55:17).

The top priority in our lives should be to acknowledge our Creator and Sustainer, the One who gives us every breath of air we breathe and every morsel of food we eat. Prayer—the deep, heartfelt, regular prayer modeled by Jesus Christ Himself, and by the apostles and prophets—is one of those activities that can all too easily be pushed aside, and even out of our lives, if we allow it.

It's good to study the prayers of the great servants of God as recorded in the Bible. If we do that, we will probably be struck by one interesting feature of many of those prayers—they were long!

In fact, they were sometimes very long! Check Daniel's prayer in Daniel 9:3-19, and Ezra's prayer in Ezra 9:5-15, to get a feel for how lengthy and detailed were the prayers of these men of God. Theirs weren't the "Sorry, God, I have to go now; I'll talk to you later" variety of prayer. Nor were they the "Please bless everything" type of prayer.

These biblical models of prayer depict men and women of God who talked at length, and in detail, with their Creator about their praise for Him, the needs of other servants of God and the needs of the work of God. When appropriate (and it's just about always appropriate!) they confessed their own sins and those of their community.

Their prayers weren't disrupted by phones going off and other interruptions. Theirs are the model for the kind of intense, personal prayer time so sorely needed in our modern world, but so easily neglected (or lost).

well.. guess there's alot of praying needs to be done.
that's me again,jireh gtg pray..hehe
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