Steps of Faith for the Deaf

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Hello,

Prayer

When we go to God in prayer, think this way:
God is my father.
He is a good father who waits for a visit from his child.

He is happy to have us come into our quiet time with Him.

He wants to hear from us. He wants to feel our love and respect for Him.

He wants us —-to feel His Spirit —-in our quiet time with Him.

Prayer is not just asking for God to do things.

When we go visit our parents, we do not go just to ask them to do things. We go to visit. We tell them what has been happening in our life,—–and we listen to what they have to say.

King David wrote many of the Psalms. In the Psalms we see how David talked to God. He told him all that was going on and how he felt about it.

Yes, God knows all that before we say it. But it helps our spirit connect with God’s spirit to say it.

We also need to listen with our spirit to what God may say to us.

A preacher/missionary, David Richards, once said: “We need to seek God’s face, not just His hand.”

In other words, prayer is not just asking God to do things— his hand—but it is coming into His presence and talking to Him, thanking Him, praising Him—seeking His face.

Getting to know God’s heart and His will for us.
Getting to feel His love for us.
Getting to know how much He cares for us.
Getting to know Him.

Prayer is not just asking for God to do things.

Prayer is “visiting” with God.

Sometimes, it seems we are happy to have the “gifts”—the things God gives—without receiving the Giver–God Himself.

We want what He gives, but do we want Him?

What does wanting Him mean?
It means that God is first and most important in our life and thinking.

That we choose God first. That we want to do the things that please God—more than doing what we want.

We need to know what pleases God.

We want to know what His will is.

It means we will do His will first, more than we will do our own will.

This is “seeking His face”.

Good-bye for now.  I’ll write again.     Sincerely, Joyce Webb