The Bible’s School Of Prayer

I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. —Job 7:11

Habakkuk 1:1-4 (New International Version)

Habakkuk 1

1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet received.

Habakkuk's Complaint

2 How long, O LORD, must I call for help,

but you do not listen?

Or cry out to you, "Violence!"

but you do not save?

3 Why do you make me look at injustice?

Why do you tolerate wrong?

Destruction and violence are before me;

there is strife, and conflict abounds.

4 Therefore the law is paralyzed,

and justice never prevails.

The wicked hem in the righteous,

so that justice is perverted.

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To call God and us unequal partners is a laughable understatement. And yet by inviting us to do kingdom work on earth, God has indeed set up a kind of odd-couple alliance. God delegates work to human beings so that we do history together, so to speak. Clearly, the partnership has one dominant partner—something like an alliance between Microsoft and a high school programmer.

We know well what happens when human beings form unequal alliances: the dominant partner tends to throw his weight around and the subordinate mostly keeps quiet. But God, who has no reason to be threatened by us, invites a steady and honest flow of communication.

I sometimes wonder why God places such a high value on honesty in our prayers, even to the extent of enduring unjust outbursts. I am startled to see how many biblical prayers seem ill-tempered. Jeremiah griped about unfairness (20:7-10); Habakkuk accused God of deafness (1:2); Job conceded, “What profit do we have if we pray to Him?” (21:15). The Bible teaches us to pray with blistering honesty.

God wants us to come to Him with our complaints. If we march through life pretending to smile while inside we bleed, we dishonor the relationship. — Philip Yancey

Give Him each perplexing problem,

All your needs to Him make known;

Bring to Him your daily burdens—

Never carry them alone! —Adams

The best thermometer of your spiritual temperature is the intensity of your prayer. —Spurgeon

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Prayer is such a wonderful way to communicate with God. With Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our sins and raising from the dead, we are able to come back to God once again. We are able to have this privilege to communicate with Him and prayer is one of the many ways. We are able to turn to God all out troubles and worries, happiness and sorrows. However we sometimes do not appreciate this privilege. We often have the mentality that our problem is too small for God to handle. As all this burdens builds up on our shoulder, we would soon feel too tired or that our Christian walk is not so pleasing to God. Therefore, bring to Him your daily burdens, never carry them alone! —Adams. As we cast our daily burdens to Him, our load is surely lighten because we can have the faith that God will take care of it, but do not forget to thank Him for joyful and sweet experience too. Life's like a roller coaster, therefore we need God to be there too calm and lead us.