PM#0480 Are We Praying From the Heart?

PM#0480

Are We Praying From the Heart?

Ps44:21, Ps 37:4

When you pray, are you praying from your heart?

Many may will say answer yes, but God is the one who really knows if you are.  Ps 44:21 says God knows the secrets of the heart. 

When it comes to prayer, those secrets can affect our prayers, and if we want to see answers to prayer, there is Biblical encouragement in PS 37 verse 4 which says ‘delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart’.  Delighting ourselves in the Lord includes obeying God’s word, meditating on it, and letting it get into our hearts.

What is in our heart can affect our prayers.  If we really delight in God’s word, we will pray from our heart, and we will see answers to what you can call ‘heart prayer’.

Consider this prayer:  ‘Father, help me to delight in Your word, and may Your word be in my heart.  Thank you for helping me.  In Jesus’ Name, Amen.’

Reflection:

When we delight in the Lord and spend time in God’s word, what happens to our heart?

The Bible says that God’s word will accomplish that to which it is sent. See Is 55:11. Consider that God’s word will guide our heart if we spend time in God’s Word.

When God's word guides our heart, it will guide our prayers.