Why is it that when you call for a prayer meeting, born again believers run the other way? Why is it that if you schedule, let’s say, a fall leaf trip excursion, folks are willing to gather at 7:00 a.m., but if you call for a prayer meeting on Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m., a handful show up? Why are believers afraid of entering the secret place of the Most High God (Psalm 91:1)?
To run from prayer is to run from God. Oh, how He longs to hear the cries of His people! How He longs for us to commune and listen to Him! Oh, how He longs for us to look to Him for His powerful, life-altering, God-glorifying answers to our supplications! How He longs to enjoy fellowship with us; that’s why Christ died for every one of us.
Is your soul really thirsty and crying out for God? Matthew Henry said, “God is more willing to be prayed to, and more ready to hear prayer, than we are to pray.”
The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry. The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles (Psalm 34:15, 17).
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God (Psalm 42:1).
O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water (Psalm 63:1).
And they continued steadfastly (to give constant attention to) . . .in prayers (Acts 2:42).
From A Pastor's Heart 