{"id":666,"date":"2015-03-06T11:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T17:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cfcmankato.org\/?p=666"},"modified":"2018-12-29T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T17:19:20","slug":"prayer-is-not-a-destination-by-phil-hernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfcmankato.org\/minnesota\/2015\/03\/prayer-is-not-a-destination-by-phil-hernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Is Not A Destination By Phil Hernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s morning, and I have missed prayer. Again. No matter how hard I try, I don\u2019t enjoy prayer. I know as a Christian it\u2019s the right thing to do.\u00a0 I just need to try harder. Or do I??<\/span><\/p>\n

Myth #1—Trying harder at prayer is not what God wants from and for us.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is prayer anyway? Maybe I should start there. I have heard it said that prayer is just talking with God. I should be able to do that. I talk to people all day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Myth # 2— Just talk to God, but never really share your heart. And especially don\u2019t ask God what is on His heart and mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0These two myths are commonly seen today. But prayer is not a destination, or a spiritual activity. It is a means to meet with God. If we settle
\n\"Readingfor doing a religious activity, we will miss the face of God and the very reason for which we were made. Think about it, the God of the universe desires to meet with us. He desires to have a relationship with us. And not just a relationship of passing fancy, or once in awhile, or when we are in trouble, but a deep knowing and sharing of hearts. He so wants to share His heart and thoughts with us.<\/span><\/p>\n

So why do we struggle with prayer? Could it be that we are afraid that someone really wants to know us this deeply? What will He think if He\u00a0truly knew me? If He knew my faults, my fears, my failures? Dear friend, He already does. In fact, I believe God is drawn to the weak and lowly of spirit. His Word says:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor though the LORD\u00a0is exalted,\u00a0Yet He regards the\u00a0lowly<\/strong>,<\/span>
\n but the haughty He knows from afar.\u201d Psalm 138:6<\/span><\/p>\n

So, what are we waiting for? The Bible already says that we do not know what to pray for. I believe that God is inviting us in these days to learn the language of the Kingdom of our God, the Word of God, and to pray His Word back to Him. He wants us to share our heart\u2019s cry with Him, and to listen and hear His heart. He is asking us to ask Him, \u201cLord, teach me to pray.\u201d If you say these words with your heart as well as your mouth, He will hear you and will answer you. I am excited about our God and what He is doing among us. He is drawing a people unto Himself. A people of prayer. For His house shall be a house of prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s morning, and I have missed prayer. Again. No matter how hard I try, I don\u2019t enjoy prayer. I know as a Christian it\u2019s the right thing to do.\u00a0 I just need to try harder. Or do I?? Myth #1—Trying harder at prayer is not what God wants from and for us. What is prayer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[130,129,127,83,79,128],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-hearing-from-god","tag-hearing-god","tag-myths-about-prayer","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-speaking-to-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfcmankato.org\/minnesota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfcmankato.org\/minnesota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfcmankato.org\/minnesota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfcmankato.org\/minnesota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfcmankato.org\/minnesota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfcmankato.org\/minnesota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/cfcmankato.org\/minnesota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfcmankato.org\/minnesota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfcmankato.org\/minnesota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfcmankato.org\/minnesota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfcmankato.org\/minnesota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}