Hosea 7:14
Much like my last post, I'm talking about God wanting our everything. He wants our hearts. Not as slaves to control, but as willing servants, so He can lift us up to the best He has for us. How shallow we are, looking to God only in times of trouble! Or how we simply sit and wallow in our troubles without so much as a head turn to the Lord, wanting our life to fix itself!
The Lord has an intense desire for us to come to Him; He LONGS to redeem us from our pits! We, however, are stubborn and filled with sin, refusing to follow Him. For some reason, in our finite minds, that somehow means weakness--accepting a Savior. But it's the truth we must come to, sooner or later: We are sin, and without God we will perish in our sin forever.
My application is to only pray in the Lord's Prayer layout: the Praise Sandwich, if you will.
Starting with acknowledging the glory of God and His power, thanking Him for __________, presenting my requests or petitions of ___________, as HE WILLS, then ending with more praise and thanks to His name. This will bring my focus in prayer where it needs to be, instead of falling into the trap of treating God as a vending machine for all my fleshly wants and desires, losing sight of who He really is.
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