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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Prayer

Prayer. Sometimes the easy thing to do but also the hardest thing to do at the same time. Prayer is work it does not come naturally in us. When I look how Jesus prayed in Gethsemane I wonder how hard it was for him to pray that kind of prayer "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." (Matt 26:39) and he does for hours. How does Jesus pray like this?
As I reflected on how I pray I feel it has been reduce to to three things: What I want, what I have, What I am suppose to do. (got this idea from chapel) I mean there nothing wrong with doing all that, throughout the bible people did pray for things and even Jesus did. There rules when it to prayer like in James it said to test your motive of your heart. Why? well even Jesus said "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak." (Matt 26:41) So, how then do we pray rightly? I have no idea but here what I got: Rather then filling out time with God, make a space for God to fill you in (that's from chapel too) Jesus throughout his ministry allowed God to supernaturally walk with him by making space, to allow God fill his ministry. Can we do that?

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