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Check this out: Matthew 5:5-13
Prayer shouldn’t be a chore. It should be a delight. You can simply come to your father and say: “you are the bounce in my step, the melody in my heart, my joie de vivre (the joy of my life) and I thank you.”
Francois Fénelon, a seventeenth-century Roman Catholic Frenchman, had this really important thing to say about prayer:
Tell God all that is in your heart, as one un- loads 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 to 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. Tell him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others.
If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs and troubles there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such unreserved intercourse with God.
Remember God is your Papa and it gladdens his heart to hear your voice.
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray. – Samuel Chadwick
Yours in love, MOI
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