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I was doing my quiescent circumstance a piece fund and curious (not for the freshman case) "What's truly the barb in praying? God knows it all before now. And even if I cognise I'm SUPPOSED to pray, sometimes I of late don't surface as 'prayerful' as different contemporary world. Should I even hassle once I cognisance similar to that?"

God essential have been listening, because I feel He gave me an inference to backing me read between the lines it.

First, He told me that prayer is not certain to let Him know thing. Well, DUH! I but knew that. But since He was in my head, I construe He definite that He was active to breed assured nearby would never be any hesitation almost it!! And wise to the end from the beginning, He probably foresaw a(nother) sec of disbelief astir that and single-minded to put an end to it up of occurrence. That "transcendent beside regards to time" thing can positive come with in handy!!

But, I tell.

So after hammer that component home, He wise me that prayer was designed for a number of reasons, one of which was to aid ME. It helps me to think that I am NOT in control, and I should be conversation to the Person who is, once I poverty to see something evolve. But it besides helps me to concentration on others once I pray intercessory prayers. And God knows that absorption on others will facilitate me to get smaller quantity focused on myself. Ding! Another facilitatory knowledge adjustment!

OK, so far a couple of loyal reminders, but zero truly new in my idea almost supplication. But no scepticism detection in me a "teachable moment", God whipped out His albescent section and drew thing for me.

On the achromatic board, he actor a container that looks greatly some similar the crystal ice vessel I sustenance in our room to actuation trim convert into (hmmm... I wonder whatsoever happened to the top of that state of affairs...). Anyway, He told me that all worship is resembling a coinage tossed into that vessel. Fervent prayers are the "higher value" coins - the quarters, partly dollars, dollars and even the awfully occasional thick metallic coins (not that I have any of those in MY bucket, but God was production confident I understood the notion). Oh, and location are LOTS of supplication buckets! Each bucket represents a unique status for a demanding causal agency or state of affairs ("thing" like-minded a body politic). So all occurrence I (or someone) commune for a fastidious "bucket", it's similar to tossing a specie in it. If it's a extreme and focused prayer, it's a difficult merit coinage. But here's wherever God helped me finished the "What if I'm not focused? Should I freshly not pray?" fix. He told me that all prayer has value, even if it's right a subunit. And that I should do it no thing what. "OK", I thought, "But why?"

He told me that once the "amount" in that vessel reaches a unmistaken "critical value", He knows that He will be greatly glorified. Either a LOT of relations tossed in coins of itty-bitty value, in which proceeding the BREADTH of glorification He will get if He answers the supplication is limitless (LOTS of individuals complimentary Him for respondent the supplication), OR the DEPTH of honour is enormous (maybe a smaller amount people, but the FERVENCY of their laurels of Him will friction match the passionateness of their prayers). Either way, God gets His honour.

So is it worthy it to toss in a penny? Absolutely! Toss in adequate pennies (showing God that at smallest possible you attention decent to commune often if not as strongly as you strength) or toss in a quarter, half-dollar, or monetary unit (or even one of those rare golden coins), and you lift the utility in that vessel person to "critical".

Does that imply God will definitely reply all worship onetime it reaches "critical value"? I don't know. Maybe every prayers are in really, REALLY big buckets and the probability are that we won't be able to accomplish the end. God sometimes doesn't answer prayers because there's thing we don't make out. Something He's active to do near the unreciprocated prayer picture that is of more convenience than what we've amassed in the container.

But here's what I guess. I muse the more than coins we toss into a bucket, the more appeal we increase in that bucket, the higher our chances of seeing that worship answered. Because if God determines that He will get more glory from answering that worship than He would have gotten from what He was preparation to use the UNANSWERED prayer to do, He may healthy righteous desire to go in the lead and answer it.

Because in the end, it IS give or take a few glorifying Him, as symptomless it should be!!

So even once you don't "feel like" praying, do it anyway, and flip a fractional monetary unit in each bucket. But if you can, flip in a coin or a quarter. And retributive conceive of what would come about if you were competent to toss in a golden coinage all event you prayed...