Prayer-a beautiful thing

“Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.” (Philippians 4:6-7, The Message)

Prayer is a beautiful thing. Prayer takes us away from ourselves and knocks on heaven’s door where fear, anguish, and self-centeredness depart to let peace enter in. Peace is a gift given to those who pray. A gift that covers daily trials like soft snow or cleanses like lapping waves of the sea.

Prayer is our greatest gift one to another. A gift that gives and loves and hopes. A gift that seeks the ultimate for others from the heart. For from the heart we pray and connect to God who knows our hearts and our prayers; he knows the wounds and scars of others; he cares and has concern.

God’s concern is the heart. A heart that prays. A heart so dependent on him that it prays. For prayer is a show of dependency, a demonstration of faith, a belief in God though he is not seen. Yet our hearts see God in prayer, our hearts hear his whisper and our souls are made peaceful. In peace or in sorrow prayer is a beautiful thing.


A Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank you for your glory this morning! Thank you for this day that you’ve added to my life—a day to give you honor and thanks. A day to see you in the falling snow or rising sun or in children’s eyes. A day to pray, to think of others, and to honor you with my dependency on you—through the act of praying.