What is prayer to me

Prayers is talking to God, telling Him all our daily chores and needs, boring and fresh ones, God gets to hear them all, all the time from us babbling them out at Him. Prayer is a little bit selfish as it is like lamenting to God what we do not like and wish for changes to happen and then we sit and wait for God to speak to us. Some times, we utter out thankful words of praise to Him especially during meal time. 

Now, we could even say our prayer to thank for the food using the camera to take photos of the food we about to part-take. Once, I made up this prayer of Grace which is the ritual of taking photos of food using camera prior to eating them, I called it the latest religious ritual :-

Thank you Lord for the food I about to part-take

Look at it Lord, isn't it cute on my camera.

May it be a prefect health for me after I eat it. Amen !

Picture first, eat later.

So pretty, don't eat first. Take picture for memory and comments on the
Food Blog that we have been thinking of starting (which never happen).

However, Prayer should be sincere and not like placing an order although at times, our list is so long, it looks like a shopping list. Prayer should be from the heart, things that bother or concern us at our core beings, some days, we get a prompting so strong, the only logical reason is to pray and wait for God's next instructions. 

We must align our prayers to the will of God. It is Him first and me second. He must increases and me decrease, that should be our attitude in prayers. We would not dare to demand that God to listen to way we suggest Him to answer. So learn to pray within the will of God. Seek first His kingdom and all these things will be given unto you. God is no man's debtor, He will honour our wishes.

We must expect Him to speak to us as we pray. Praying is like two ways traffic, there is uplink and downlink, just like the internet, one speed may be faster than the other. Perhaps, we are quick to send Arrows Prayers to heaven but slow to listen when He takes time to answer us ? Listening to Him is also part of prayer.

We have a responsibility to pray but we are not responsible over the results. This is an important perspective and understanding of prayers. Very often, we hold ourselves and God accountable for unanswered prayers. We try to think who is to be blamed. That responsibility belongs to God alone ! Our job is just to submit and pray and be the instrument of change ! Basically, our job to pray, God's job to decide the outcome. 

We trust a God who is omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotent. He knows all, He is everywhere, He is all powerful. Before we speak, He knows. But He choose to move with our engagement and involvements, to God, we are the world to Him. In delaying answering our prayers, God has His reasons and timing. We do not see the full picture. We do not know our actual destiny. He does. So in prayer, we learn to submit to His Lordship over our life; over the universe, and over our future destiny in heaven. 

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