Call To Me, & I Will Answer You.

Call To Me, & I Will Answer You.

UNVEILING THE HIDDEN

Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3

Every decade, it seems as though there’s a fresh crop of books on the topic of communication. We can walk down the aisle of any bookstore and take our pick from the many volumes dedicated to public speaking, preaching, and even interpersonal communication. Learning how to speak effectively is, without question, a big industry these days.

What tends to be lacking however, is good teaching on how to communicate with the Lord. Too often, we take what we learn about mass communication and try to apply it to prayer. We carefully craft each word of our petitions, laboring over every phrase and peppering in some fancy biblical words like “thou,” “thee,” and “shalt.” Sometimes, we seem to believe that it’s possible to unlock the mysteries of heaven if we just learn how to phrase our prayers.

Friend, this is a misguided approach. We should never come before God’s throne with the presumption that we just have to find the right combination of words in order to get Him to speak. The power is not in what we say, but in what He says.

Our role in prayer is not to impress the Lord with our fine phrasing and fancy vocabulary. Rather, it is to cry out to Him, to express our needs, and then to listen. Sadly, we often miss out on what God wants to say because we’re too busy doing all the talking!

This week, take a different approach to prayer. Practice solitude and quiet meditation in your time with the Lord, and open yourself up to what He may be telling you.

Prayer: Lord, speak to me as I still my mind in your presence.

Scriptural Reading: Jeremiah 33:1-3

1. Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

2 “Thus says the Lord who made it, the Lord who formed it to establish it(the Lord is His name):

3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

NKJV

Call To Me, & I Will Answer You.