Matt. 6:7-8 “When you pray, don’t babble on and on as people of
other religions do. They think their prayers are answered only by repeating their
words again and again. Don’t be like them, because your Father knows exactly
what you need even before you ask him.”
Words don’t mean much if they don’t come from the heart. We may pray and pray and pray, but if we
aren’t sincerely praying from the heart, we are just making a lot of
noise. We may impress other people by
our praying, but our praying falls on deaf ears.
There are some people who repeat the same prayers over and over
again. Some people don’t know how to
pray any other words than what they have been taught. When I was a kid, “Now I lay me down to
sleep…..” was a prayer I repeated over and over again. At meal time many will say a simple prayer of
thanks that they say every time. Some
people will repeat a certain chant they have been taught. It doesn’t matter how many times we may
repeat these prayers, if they do not come from a heart connection with God,
they are meaningless words that don’t reach the ears of God.
God knows our hearts before we even pray. He knows our needs and wants us to express
them in words. He wants to hear the
expressions of our hearts, not out mouths.
For God, it’s all about relationships.
He doesn’t want to be talked at; He wants to be talked to. If you find yourself praying the same prayers
over and over again, you need to stop it now.
You need to talk to the Lord as you do to your friends. You need to speak from your heart and not
just repeat the same things over and over.
The Lord hears and answers the prayers spoken from a sincere
heart.
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