Prayer Carries You Aloft

Prayer is meeting with God in a timeless transforming miracle of love. You need to be meeting with Him often.

April’s Awakening, Day 3

Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your longings, that He may purify them; tell Him your dislikes, that He may help you conquer them; talk to Him of your temptations, that He may shield you from them; show Him the wounds of your heart, that He may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability.

 —François Fénelon  

That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

 —Mechthild of Magdeburg 

When I apply myself to prayer, I feel all my spirit and all my soul lift itself up without any care or effort of mine, and it continues as it were suspended and firmly fixed in God, as in its center and place of rest.

 —Brother Lawrence 

Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief. Psalm 143:1 NIV 

Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:12–13 NIV

            Prayer is the energy force that allows your spirit and soul to ascend into the spiritual realm of God Himself. There in His presence, as your spirit mingles with His, His transforming power takes hold and molds and shapes you as the Potter shapes the clay into a beautiful masterpiece. It is as if time stands still in His presence and He has sculpted you into something brand new.  The old is removed and His marvelous newness imparted to you. The great God has filled the little heart. He is the lover of your soul and He loves to make you new. Enter into His presence with thanksgiving, praise, and prayer, and let Him restore your spirit and regain all that you’ve lost. Meeting with God is a wonderful transforming miracle of His love.