Prayer

In the poem Six Recognitions of the Lord, it gave me a revelation on my prayers. In the poem is talks about how we may know all these big fancy words, but how much does God care about you using them in your prayers when you talk to Him. Sometimes when people pray, especially in front of people, they have this tendency to pray the most extravagant prayer using the biggest and best words they can find in their brain. They also try and be extremely spiritual and they use things that are written in the Bible to prove something to God. For example, people will say, "God, in your word in tells me that you will feed me just like you feed to birds of the sky and God I need you to take care of me like you promise you will in the Bible." I just want to say "I think that God knows what He promises in the Bible and I really don't think that He needs you to be reminding Him what He said. I am guilty of it sometimes too and this poem helped me realize that, I don't need to try and impress anyone. God knows my heart and God knows the things I want to say without having to use these big, extravagant words. We also talked in class about how when people pray they like to say "Father God" over and over again like God doesn't remember His own name. It is funny to think about and how we do that when we pray. It's like every time we say Father God we are calling like He's fallen asleep on us or something. I garentee He is still listening because He always does and He doesn't only listen to big words. He hears the soft simply words that come from the heart and that we speak and actaully mean something to us and Him. We need to work on pleasing God and not worrying about what other people are thinking about us and our relationship with God.