06.28.07
Prayer - Words Which Reach A Holy God
Prayer is the most wonderful tool that God has given us. The ability for such a low, vile man, like myself, to be able to speak with an almighty, Holy, God in a humble prayer is beyond my comprehension. I know now why Isaiah said:
Isa 6:5
“Woe is me, for I am ruined!,
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;,
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”
NASB
However, as I listen, humbly, to many prayers in public I hear 2 drums beating. There are those who pray as though they are speaking to their audience and not to God, maybe they are driving home a point, saying something relevant to the people, but certainly one can discern that they are not speaking to God from their heart, and the sad part is they do this under the cover of “prayer”. Then there are those who plainly are speaking to God in heaven. You can here a certain reverence and awe in their speech to the Lord.
Mark my observation and listen for yourself.
My own conviction about prayer is simple, it is a very humbling experience, which brings one to humility, but at the same time I cannot think of a better gift, except salvation itself. Not only has He saved me but He allows me to speak to Him!
Before one prays, they should realize that their very words will carry straight out of their mouth into the majestic heavens and past the holy angels who cry “Holy, Holy, Holy” and straight away into the most Fearsome, Awesome, Holy, Being of all. You are not speaking to some mere acquaintance, or even to some mayor of a town but to the Lord of Glory.
Perhaps the next time you pray, you could close your eyes and before you begin, picture this vision from John:
Rev 4
4 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.” 2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne. 3 And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. 4 And around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads. 5 And from the throne proceed flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; 6 and before the throne there was, as it were, a sea of glass like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. 7 And the first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. 8 And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say,
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.”
9 And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
11 “Worthy art Thou, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for Thou didst create all things, and because of Thy will they existed, and were created.” NASB
Can you imagine your prayers, your words, reaching such a majestic place?
I beg that everytime you pray, you do it with all sincerity of heart, with humility, with reverence to whom God is, and the reverence in which He deserves.
Do not speak many words, believe what you pray, and do it without ceasing.
For the Truth of my King
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