“Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.”

The Bible, Jeremiah 33:3, ESV

“Lord, I am here before you. I have prepared a message. A message where people should come closer to you and your heart. Where they should understand how loving and caring you are. But I need you. I need you so that they would understand me correctly. Let my words be yours, and your will be done. Lord, I am able to talk 30 mins on my own, I could totally entertain them but that is not the desire of my heart. Please Holy Spirit come and do your work.”
This is pretty much my prayer every time I preach.

The need I felt every time I prayed this prayer taught me a lot about my heart and understanding behind a prayer. For every prayer. Not sure whether I am able to explain it or not I’ll give it a try.

If there is no wind, there are no waves. A person who walks on the beach understands the need of wind for a surfer. However, only a surfer truly feels the need of wind for waves.

When I prayed for people who are sick I knew that I couldn’t heal them–only the Holy Spirit can do that. I prayed with the understanding of the need. I knew about the need but I didn’t really feel the need myself. I knew that the Holy Spirit could heal the person right away but I also knew that it could be that it wouldn’t happen. It kind of was a 50/50 prayer.

In many other situations I’m also praying a 50/50 prayer.

• My daily prayer in the morning.
• My prayer during the day.
• My prayer before I eat.
• My daily payer before I go to bed.
• When I prayed for healing.

A 50/50 prayer is a prayer out of a routine, not out of a desire, real thankfulness or understanding how great our God is. Let’s say, there might be a real desire, real thankfulness and an understanding of how great our God is. 50% are missing here- the trust and belief that God can do it, heal someone or answer the prayer.

When I talk to people I don’t always say the same things with the same voice. They wouldn’t listen to me anymore. It would not be interesting and dishonoring. I’be realized I tend to do this in my conversations with God.

Since I have felt the need of God and His power when I prayed for the message, I tried to put myself back into the situation. The situation where I prayed an all or nothing prayer, not only a 50/50 prayer. To not only pray with an understanding but feeling of the need of the Lord.

With the real understanding of who we are talking to, we will finally understand the need we have. The need of His presence, power and grace. Then we start to pray with real thankfulness and are humble enough to understand who He is and who we are. How crazy it is that we can talk to Him and he responds. The conversation gets real, a friendship can be built and mountains are moved.

Ask God to let you feel the need and not just understand it.