“Your Father knows what things you have need of before you ask him.” Matt 6:8 Dwight Moody wrote “The sweetest lesson I have learned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me.” In our blessed hour of prayer our highest aim is to come to the Father with complete confidence that He will do the very best for me and for those I pray. “Beware in your prayer, above everything of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.” -Andrew Murray
People all through history have experienced times of trouble, insecurity, loneliness, confusion, and great spiritual want. Today with God having been taken out of our culture we are left empty and deficient in grace. But for the Christian there is a hiding place, a refuge and a high tower. It is our time of prayer. “God is our refuge and strength, a tested help in times of trouble and so we need not fear even if the world blows up, and the mountains crumble into the sea.” Psalms 46:1,2
Come away, come away to a quiet place where you can receive all the love that you need from the Father. Come to Him, He’ll hold you close, in His perfect love we boast. Meet with your heavenly Father who is the only lover of your soul. Only in the sweet hour of prayer can you find what you have been seeking all along. This is the place of acceptance where I am known and loved unconditionally. My greatest need is met and I am ready to talk to the Father about my cares- I am ready to listen and learn. Like Mary I too sit at His feet and hear what is truly important and then arise to resume my duties.
O how our hearts cry out in prayer for our loved ones as well as for those we don’t know personally. We desire His answers yet often they are far greater than our faith. One believer wrote “…sometimes God delays the answer to our prayer in final form until we have time to build up the strength, accumulate the knowledge or fashion the character that would make it possible for Him to say ‘yes’ to what we ask.” Dear Christian, encourage your heart in God knowing you will meet together once more in your own sweet hour of prayer. In this quiet place we go prepared to face a new day with greater faith and hope than ever before. Christian, God is waiting now to meet with you.
Catching a Vision by Viv 