O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. (Matt 12:34 KJV)
We could apply this scripture to our own prayers in a reflective manner. What are our prayers to Him like? We must honestly acknowledge that what comes pouring out of us is our heart—either that or God’s Word is not true. What we are is revealed to God by what we say to Him in our prayer. We cannot hide it; we cannot be two-faced with Him.
So we set the stage of understanding that prayer is speaking to God what comes out of our heart. Even as this proverb Jesus gives is directed toward men, it is also true concerning our speech toward God. What we are comes out.
The desire of God us ward is that He wants His will done in every aspect of our life, and He wants our prayers to be according to His will. The truth is that when we ask things according to His will, our requests stand the greatest chance of being answered positively. One might ask the question “Why”? The answer is because, in effect, they are His thoughts coming back to Him. His thoughts having become lodged in our heart, we are now sending a part of Him back to Him. We see this lesson put before our eyes in the Word as we read of the life of the Master while He was here on earth in the flesh!
In this day especially with all the false teachings out there we need to be very cautious as not to think of this as a magic formula of some kind, as if we say certain words and out comes the desired thing. True prayer is —speaking God’s words back to Him. In this regard we come to realize that these are the prayers that have the best chance of being answered positively because it pleases God to see His children develop in His image. He then responds out of His love, even as we would to a child who pleases us.
For Indeed we serve an Awesome God!!!
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