Prayer can be showy. You’ve probably been in prayer gatherings where someone prays a long prayer using flowery language. Prayer is not entertainment; it’s a time of fellowship with God.
We know we can pray anywhere but there is something about having a place where we pray regularly. As we grow in our zeal for prayer, we should begin to find ourselves really looking forward to our prayer times. A Christian’s prayer is not a set of incantations or magic formulae to appease God and get his favor. It is not to become a ritual or a religious tradition so as to benefit ourselves. Rather, it is a heartfelt affection born out of a desire to be in constant relationship and communion with God and to express our heartfelt worship and reciprocal love to Him and seek his guidance and favor in our lives. Prayer in and of itself is not to tick off a checkbox on a spiritual checklist and such prayer anyway is powerless, meaningless and a mere facade. But genuine heartfelt prayer to God, brings many fruits to the person who is praying. It humbles the heart, it grows dependence, it strengthens resolve, it bolsters faith, it invokes worship, and it matures character.
Praying for a long time, using many words or repetition doesn’t mean we are more likely to get God’s attention. It just doesn’t work that way; really don’t know why we feel that God will hear us more clearly like that. This Scripture makes it clear that it’s not about words, length, or repetition, because God knows anyway. It’s about quality, the right heart attitude, concentrating on what we’re doing, trying to live a life that doesn’t contradict our prayer life, not quantity.
Sometimes all you got is prayer and that’s fine, although it may seem the other way but if you have that one prayer, you can bank everything you got on that. It’s not the words that make your prayer the best weapon you have against the enemy, it’s the place where it’s coming from. The pain produces the perfect prayer and there is nothing like a perfect prayer, there is only a Perfect God. An imperfect prayer to a Perfect God is the winning equation for a miracle. None of it matters if you have the most poetic prayer but it doesn’t come out. “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
Living on a prayer is the right way of living