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Prayer Life
I didn’t realize how much I missed my baby until I was away from her for a couple of weeks. We’ve been together for a couple of months now and our relationship has truly blossomed. She is perfect. I love her so very much. She is always there for me when I need her. When I have her in my arms I never want to let her go or put her down. It has been said that we make beautiful music together. I have to thank my sister for introducing us. Anyways, it was a couple of Sundays ago that we were in church together and I ended up breaking one of her strings. What? OK, I had you all going. Actually my baby is my guitar. My sister got it for me for my birthday a couple of months ago and I have truly fallen in love with it. Well, I had broke a string during worship at church and just recently I got it fixed. I had been so busy the last couple of weeks that I hadn’t had time to get my guitar repaired, with my trip to Albuquerque and running errands and more errands for my sister and on top of that being sick, so when I finally had my guitar in my hands again, I realized how much I really missed playing.
There is nothing like being in the presence of God, worshiping Him and getting to know Him better. It had seemed like forever since I had truly worshiped Him. Don’t get me wrong, I am constantly singing songs to Him in my head or listening to music that glorifies Him or worshiping Him in a church service, but there’s just something about that time we make for God in our own personal time, in our prayer closets so to say. I usually sit on the floor of my room next to my bed with my guitar in hand and play until I’m in His presence, and then I voice my concerns to Him, whether through singing or just talking, playing my guitar or just sitting there in silence.
I believe worship and prayer go hand in hand together. Worship isn’t just singing a song or playing an instrument. We worship God with our lifestyle, or at least we should. I can’t rely on the worship leader at my church to get me into God’s presence. I can’t rely on my Pastor or my brother or sister, my mom or dad. It’s only when I make that effort to put God before everything else in my life that I can truly know Him.
Prayer isn’t a hard thing. We make it too hard sometimes. All you really need to do is make that connection with God. Prayer is just talking with God and then sitting still and listening for Him to speak back to you. It’s conversation. He is our Friend and He wants us to voice our concerns to Him, to share our life with Him. He cares so much about each and every one of you and all He wants is that fellowship with you. So many times we get too busy though. Is it really impossible to put away an hour, a half an hour, or even 15 minutes a day to talk to God.
I’ve really been trying to spend more time in prayer, more time seeking Him. I’m not going to tell you how much time I spend each day, because that’s not what’s important. It’s quality, not quantity when it comes to prayer. You pray until you make that connection with God and know that He’s heard you and you’ve heard from Him. Every morning when I get home from work, (I work nights) I’ve been taking that time. I get a hold of my guitar and just play until I’m in His presence, maybe sing a few songs, maybe just play a few chords, and then I pray and ask God to direct my day. I love it because I really don’t have a time limit. I might be tired from a long night at work, but when I’m in His presence nothing else matters.
It’s in the most simplest of times when God seems to be the most real. A lot of times we try to make God out to be someone who is unreachable, who is so far away in Heaven that He doesn’t have time to deal with our little selves here on earth, but the truth is that He is always there to listen to you. In fact, His greatest desire is to hear from you.
I don’t know where you’re at right now in your prayer life, your worship life, but I encourage you to really make it a priority to spend some quality time with God everyday. Your perspective in life starts to change. Set aside that time, maybe it’s on your lunch break or on your drive to work, but I challenge you to make that effort. Try this for a couple of weeks and you will see how God moves in you life.
God Bless each and every one of you. See ya again next week.
- geno
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