what's the good of prayer

"Be yourself before God and present your problems, the things you know you have come to your wits end over." -Oswald Chambers

i have been a follower of Christ my whole life. i knew the power and importance of prayer. i knew when to pray and i knew what to pray. that was the problem. i prayed what i was suppose to and not what i longed to pray, not what was the cry of my heart, not the issues that kept me awake at night. but on august 28th, when i read Oswald Chambers My Utmost for His Highest i was gently reminded that God wanted me to tell him of the very things i had wanted to all along.

so on the eve of the community prayer walk - i will be praying what is in my heart and not what i am "suppose to." i will be praying that families would be a safe haven for their children, that people would make attending church a priority in their lives as much as they do sports or social clubs, that husbands and wives could be best friends that honor and bless each other, that the folks in Upland would think of others first - before themselves, and most importantly that those who have no hope, no peace, no community, no family, and no purpose find all of those things in a relationship with Christ.


Lord, teach us to pray . . . Luke 11:1