Day 4

 

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

 

“It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing. Such praying has no connection with the praying for which we plead. We are stressing true praying, which engages and sets on fire every high element of the preacher’s being — prayer which is born of vital oneness with Christ and the fullness of the Holy Ghost, which springs from the deep, overflowing fountains of tender compassion, deathless solicitude for man’s eternal good; a consuming zeal for the glory of God; a thorough conviction of the preacher’s difficult and delicate work and of the imperative need of God’s mightiest help. Praying grounded on these solemn and profound convictions is the only true praying. Preaching backed by such praying is the only preaching which sows the seeds of eternal life in human hearts and builds men up for heaven.” – E.M. Bounds

 

Let us pray:

Father, many times we pray with our head and not with our heart. We don’t open up and honestly tell you what we think and share with You who we really are. Help us to lay down our walls and be candid and honest with You. Help us to be intimate with You.

Much of our routine praying comes out of obligation. May our spirits be ignited by Your love to press deeper in, pass obligation, and find that sacred space with You and in You. Many of us never really had a sacred space to truly be ourselves, without shame, and without pain. Help us discover this new land…this Promised Land…in You. This is our prayer.

 

#Heart #Zeal #Fire #SacredSpace