Prayer: What Does Not Work ~ Closing Thoughts

Greetings Dear Reader,

Prayer is how we converse with our Father.  It is the way he has chosen for us to communicate our adoration, confession, thankfulness, and supplication.  Prayer must be a constant conversation.

Treating the Father as a wish list or vending machine does not work.  Only talking to God when we are in crisis is insulting and all too common.  We do not do what we should and then expect the Father to live up to our expectations.  We expect him to ignore or ignoring him and be attendant to our needs when we are at a loss.

Worse, we place expectations on how he should act.  We also demand that God do things our way.  If we do not get the result from prayer that we wish then we rage against God. We question his wisdom and authority. We even abandon him.  

Too often we use prayer to try to bend God to our religion.  We want our will to be his will instead of learning to make ours subject to his.  I must pray always.  I must converse with God like the loving Father he is.  Respect, obedience, and understanding are my responsibility.  Trust and faith are required of me.  I must pray always constantly with these things in mind.

My God – Aqualung

People, what have you done

Locked Him in His golden cage

Golden cage

Made Him bend to your religion

Him resurrected from the grave

From the grave

He is the God of nothing

If that's all that you can see

You are the God of everything

He's inside you and me

So lean upon Him gently

And don't call on Him to save you

From your social graces

And the sins you used waive

You used to waive

The bloody Church of England

In chains of history

Requests your earthly presence at

The vicarage for tea

And the graven image you know

With His plastic crucifix

He's got him fixed

Confuses me as to who and where and why

As to how he gets his kicks

He gets his kicks

Confessing to the endless sin

The endless whining sounds

You'll be praying 'til next Thursday to

All the Gods that you can count

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”

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