Have you
had your Joy Juice today? If you’ve had your quiet time with God, I’m sure that
you’ve had a serving of joy!
Peter Lord
in his book Hearing God writes: “Prayer is a two-way conversation with
God the Father and one of us, his children. It is one of the primary sources of
fellowshipping with our Lord, but we must open our hearts to what he has to
say. When we hear God in our times of
meditation and prayer, there is much we learn about him and about ourselves.”
Most of us
like to know that people are listening when we speak. The conversation is brief when it’s
one-sided! The same is true with prayer! “Prayer is transformed when it moves
from a monologue to a dialogue---when you listen to God speak after you have
spoken or when you listen to him speak before you even utter a word.” (Peter
Lord)
Someone has
jokingly said that God gave us two ears and one mouth so we could listen twice
as much as we talk. For some of us, that’s sometimes hard to do! But let’s remember that when we learn to
listen to God, prayer is vitalized. It
is valuable in our lives, and it becomes exciting.
Let’s evaluate our prayer life. Is it dull and routine? For many of us, it may even be nonexistent on
some days. What we should all hope for
is an exciting experience when we go to God in prayer because we recognize the
voice of the One Who loves us supremely.
When our prayer life is a personal exchange with our Father, then it
will be overflowing with JOY!
Drink from the fountain of Joy Juice that
comes from an exciting prayer life and a personal relationship with Jesus.
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