River of Life

Prayer is our greatest tool and our greatest resource in the Kingdom of Heaven. What is so amazing about prayer is that "God" the creator of the Heavens and Earth litterally takes the time to listen to an insignificant human being like me, not because He has to but because He thinks that everything I say is important. One of my most favorite ways to pray is to sit behind a piano and just begin to play whatever I feel like playing, mainly a 2 or four chord progression because I can only play chords, and then sing my prayers out. Sometimes they flow with the music and sometimes they don't. My number one favorite way to pray, which you can decide for yourself if it is biblical or not, is that when I don't have any special words to say I just start singing. I sing no words or anything I just start singing whatever notes or making whatever noises that I feel somewhere deep in my gut, or in my spirit. In times where I have just let go of everything, all my fear and pride, and let the Holy Spirit lead me in prayer, because I don't always know what to pray for, He comes and helps me to pray whatever it is that I need to pray for.
It blows me away that our Heavenly Father doesn't need us to pray but chooses to act through what we pray and also knows the moments that we are not going to really know what to pray for and gives us His Spirit to help lead us when we don't know what to say. Think about that for a second. That is Seriously Ridiculous. The Spirit of God is a River of Life within us. He leads us in what to pray and there is power behind every word that we pray. There is no need for God to use us in prayer and still He desires us to pray. He even desires us to lean on His Spirit seeking what it is we should be praying for. I confess that so often I forget about all the things that I "should" be praying for and it is in those times where I am quiet and listening to God, whether intentionally listening or just paying attention to His voice as it is keeping me awake late at night, I am moved to pray. When I am behind a piano or some other music is playing and I believe the Spirit leading me to pray these images come to mind of persons, events, or things in the spiritual realm and I just sing about whatever i see. However it is we pray, when we pray out there is life and power and strength in waht we speak. Not becuase of how powerful or strong we are as humans but because of the power of the living God within us.

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