Comments on: Can You Hear Me Now?: God on Mute http://www.pathwaysblog.com/can-you-hear-me-now-god-on-mute/ Mill Creek, WA - Worship one. Love all. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:33:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Barb http://www.pathwaysblog.com/can-you-hear-me-now-god-on-mute/comment-page-1/#comment-16751 Barb Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:33:57 +0000 http://www.pathwaysblog.com/2008/01/16/can-you-hear-me-now-god-on-mute/#comment-16751 This is also an isssue that I have had so many times. I felt that God just didn't hear me-maybe I didn't pray "right" or often enough. However, after hearing Paul speak this past weekend, I realize that however I pray is the "right" way and maybe God just wasn't answering in MY time. He also made me really think about how often I pray for something or someone. When he said that he and his wife had been praying for 40 years for her mother without any results-whoa!!! That really blew me away. I now think that maybe I just gave up praying too soon for some of the prayers that I saw as not being answered. I have definitely had some new ideas to think about as far as my prayer life is concerned and I am anxious to put them into practice. This is also an isssue that I have had so many times. I felt that God just didn’t hear me-maybe I didn’t pray “right” or often enough. However, after hearing Paul speak this past weekend, I realize that however I pray is the “right” way and maybe God just wasn’t answering in MY time. He also made me really think about how often I pray for something or someone. When he said that he and his wife had been praying for 40 years for her mother without any results-whoa!!! That really blew me away. I now think that maybe I just gave up praying too soon for some of the prayers that I saw as not being answered. I have definitely had some new ideas to think about as far as my prayer life is concerned and I am anxious to put them into practice.

]]> By: Sherie http://www.pathwaysblog.com/can-you-hear-me-now-god-on-mute/comment-page-1/#comment-16748 Sherie Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:38:57 +0000 http://www.pathwaysblog.com/2008/01/16/can-you-hear-me-now-god-on-mute/#comment-16748 In the past I have thought of unanswered prayer as God not hearing my requests or refusing to answer, but I am very slowly learning that prayer is about sharing. If prayer is about relationship, then God’s silence can be an invitation to pursue him and learn more. It can be his way of telling me that he loves me so much that a quick answer won’t cut it because he wants to know me, the real me. These quotes have helped me see prayer differently. “Prayer begins with the assumption that the intimate, all-knowing God knows every thought and intent of the heart before it is conceived or spoken. Prayer does not inform God; rather it draws us into his presence and invites him into our life. Prayer is involvement through the spoken word. In that sense, prayer of any kind and about any subject delights God’s heart. The Lord desires for us to want him, adore him, thank him, need him, love him. To ask God to reveal, confirm, instruct, guide, heal, bless, convict, or comfort invites him to enter our situation and accomplish what he desires.” (Dr. Dan Allender) “When we open our hearts to be honest with God in prayer, he hears us and steps through the door to be with us, totally unfazed by the mess of our interior world. The thing that keeps God out of our lives is not our sin. It is our compulsion to pretend, to cover up our nakedness with fig leaves, to climb sycamore trees in order to see without being seen.” (from God on Mute by Pete Greig) In the past I have thought of unanswered prayer as God not hearing my requests or refusing to answer, but I am very slowly learning that prayer is about sharing. If prayer is about relationship, then God’s silence can be an invitation to pursue him and learn more. It can be his way of telling me that he loves me so much that a quick answer won’t cut it because he wants to know me, the real me. These quotes have helped me see prayer differently.

“Prayer begins with the assumption that the intimate, all-knowing God knows every thought and intent of the heart before it is conceived or spoken. Prayer does not inform God; rather it draws us into his presence and invites him into our life. Prayer is involvement through the spoken word. In that sense, prayer of any kind and about any subject delights God’s heart. The Lord desires for us to want him, adore him, thank him, need him, love him. To ask God to reveal, confirm, instruct, guide, heal, bless, convict, or comfort invites him to enter our situation and accomplish what he desires.” (Dr. Dan Allender)

“When we open our hearts to be honest with God in prayer, he hears us and steps through the door to be with us, totally unfazed by the mess of our interior world. The thing that keeps God out of our lives is not our sin. It is our compulsion to pretend, to cover up our nakedness with fig leaves, to climb sycamore trees in order to see without being seen.” (from God on Mute by Pete Greig)

]]> By: andy http://www.pathwaysblog.com/can-you-hear-me-now-god-on-mute/comment-page-1/#comment-16729 andy Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:37:17 +0000 http://www.pathwaysblog.com/2008/01/16/can-you-hear-me-now-god-on-mute/#comment-16729 That really resonates with me. So often, I am not ready to listen to God. I already know the answer I want to hear and am not will to open myself up to what God would have to tell me. Sometimes it is so hard to surrender myself so that I can listen to God. That really resonates with me. So often, I am not ready to listen to God. I already know the answer I want to hear and am not will to open myself up to what God would have to tell me. Sometimes it is so hard to surrender myself so that I can listen to God.

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