Good morning Hands on Missions family.  We have been on the topic of prayer for sometime now.  For this blog, I wanted to get some feedback about your discipline of prayer.  How often do you find yourself going into prayer daily?  Do you find that a particular time of day works well for prayer?  While you pray; do you use a method or format (eg confession, praise, requests; etc.)?  Share a particular prayer request that was answered .  What confidence did the answer give you in additional prayers?  Have you ever had to wait for a long period of time before receiving the answer and how did you cope with the waiting period?  I believe many of you can provide feedback to one or more of these questions.  As always, grace and peace.

These are sobering words we often reflect upon after our failures of sin. While that may sound discouraging; we can know without a doubt that the Spirit of God is,performing His work within us to bring us to,confession afterwards.   This is how we know that we are a child of the King.  It is also comforting to know that Christ is praying for us daily.  Christ understands our struggle; for He struggled with the same temptations while on Earth (Hebrews 4:15).  

The title of today’s blog seems contradictory of what is commonly perceived as biblical prayer.  This not so if you understand the many prayers among the prophets and others which were accounted in scriptures. How does God view those which demonstrate this activity at times?  What can we learn from scripture that may help us understand this element of prayer?  Can pressing our Lord with persistent questioning directed to God be beneficial in the believer’s life of prayer? I am confident that we could create a multitude of questions surrounding this topic. The truth remains that God may seem distant and inattentive during some of our prayers; but we never doubt that the best answer to our prayers is found in God’s plan and his timing.