What
keeps some Christians from turning to God when their burdens grow
overwhelming? You would think that He would be their first avenue for
relief, but often He isn't. Perhaps He hasn't answered prayers in the
past the way they wished. Perhaps it is because they don't feel His
presence, and they are afraid to try again. Perhaps prayer, which had
once been a close friend, now seems so old and distant. Whatever the
reason, they feel alone and separated by a wall that has grown in its
immensity.
The
good news is that God is still there, and the wall can come down. One
chink in that forbidding structure, and it can tumble into pieces.
One prayer from the heart-one cry from the spirit, and the barrier is
gone. We might not know what to pray, but the cry of the spirit does.
“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not
know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for
us with groans that words cannot express” (Romans 8:26). It is in
surrender of myself to God, and in the groan of my spirit, when no
words can express the pain in my heart, that I can find His peace
which surpasses all human reasoning (Philippians 4:6-7).
If
it has been awhile since you have prayed from the heart, He is still
there. If it has been awhile since you felt His presence in prayer,
He is still there. If it has been awhile since your heart has known
one-on-one, spirit-to-spirit release, He is still there. Prayer
always returns when you once again open the pain in your heart to the
Holy Spirit. Prayer is like an old friend who has never tired of the
delay, but has waited patiently for you to discover the joy of
release in that friendship once more. He waits in that place of
comfort and release. Allow Him to carry what you were never created
to carry alone.
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