Do I Have A Prayer Filled Heart

Have you ever heard someone pray and thought ‘I wish I could pray like that’? I think everyone in their Believer’s walk has had that thought run through their mind.

In the Bible there are GREAT examples of prayers that those who believed God - prayed! They are there so that we will have example of how to pray to God.

Those who walked close to God in the Bible had an INTENSE PRAYER LIFE in the Lord! They were the type of believers that had a chance to enrich their life by praying to a God that they believed in and depended on.

Do we pray that way today? Do we invest our time in prayer in our quiet time? Are we seeking to walk with God in such a way that our prayer life envelops our relationship in Christ?

Prayer is the wrapping paper on the gift of God! Everything that we believe in is wrapped up and surrounded by a relationship with God and that begins by talking to Him on a regular basis! It is the feeling of the LOVE that God has for us in that moment when we need Him most and we KNOW that He is listening to us!

For us to have a ‘Prayer Filled Heart’ we have to be PERSONAL with God! We have to pour our heart out to Him. We must ask Him for forgiveness for our sin so that He can hear our prayer; tell Him what we don’t understand so He can give us wisdom; talk to Him about what is bothering us so that He can give us peace; ask Him to reveal His heart to us so that we can know which direction to take.

Being PERSONAL with God is born out of our need to hold on to God because we KNOW He does not change and will always be there.

Exodus 33: 18 – “Then Moses said, ‘Now show me your glory.” ~ Moses had a relationship with God in such a way that God walked and talked with Him continually. Moses loved God and it SHOWED! He followed God even though he felt totally inadequate in serving Him. This kind of question comes from a love relationship with the Father. Moses was not demanding God show him anything; he was asking out of love for God to reveal more of Himself to him. God did just that.

Psalm 27:11-14 – “Teach me your way, O LORD; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors. Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence. I am confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD." David asked God to teach him His ways. He knew that God was the answer when He needed Him. He turned to the Lord when people and this life oppressed him. Prayer is a way to communicate to God that we need to be taught how to live! If our relationship is where it should be we can ask God to ‘teach us how’ in any situation we are in!

Philippians 3:10 – “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.” Paul had a deep desire to KNOW CHRIST more and have the power that Jesus had for this life. Do we have a deep desire to KNOW Christ? To have such a deep relationship with God is a beautiful thing! There is POWER there for those who desire to know God like this. Paul had the power of Christ. It was evident because he suffered for God and yet wrote some of the most beautiful books of the Bible WHILE HE SUFFERED. I want to know Christ like this!

John 17:3 – “Now this is eternal life; that they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” Jesus ASKED GOD TO HELP US KNOW HIM! Jesus was teaching the disciples how to pray by example. We should come to the Father and ask Him to help us know Him more. Jesus desired that we know God more. When was the last time that we prayed to know God more? It is part of the relationship process. When we love; we want to know more!

Having a PRAYER FILLED HEART requires us to pour our heart out to God in such a way that we BELIEVE that God is hearing us. When we pray do we believe that God is listening? When we pray like we believe that it changes us.

When our relationship with Christ is born out of love and need, we grow closer to God and can pray Matthew 6:5-13 with a whole new perspective! Our relationship with God and His Word will show us so much!

A prayer filled heart is a heart that is turned toward the Lord and seeks Him in everything. Pray Matthew 6:9-13 often. Read it to the Lord until you memorize it. God loves to hear us read His Word back to Him. Believe that God is at work in your prayers. He hears you and loves you. Oh that we would believe in Him more!

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed by your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”