REVIEW -- #624 from Jan. 31, 2017

 #624 Tues. Jan. 31/17,  3:45 a.m.   at home

(Pray with Me)     

 I have come to call My People to prayer.

 Do not hesitate to pray day and night.  There is no particular time to pray.  Just pray.

 Yes, you can set aside a specific prayer time if you wish, yet never hesitate to pray always.

 Keeping Me with you is a prayer. 

Asking Me to lead you is a prayer.

Seeking more of Me throughout your day is a prayer. 

Talking over situations in your life with Me is a prayer. 

Thanking Me often and more often is a prayer. 

Being more with Me than your own thoughts is a prayer.

Whatever brings you closer to Me is a prayer.

 How can I describe prayer?  It is a closer relationship with Me constantly,

 So you do not have to bash yourself if you forget specific morning or evening prayers. 

 Great if you say them.  But great if we just chat.

 If you lose every prayer book it should not matter, it does not matter. 

 You can still prayerfully worship Me from the center of your heart.

 As our relationship deepens, we talk more heart to heart. 

 Sometimes a written prayer just can’t say what our heart really feels. 

 Allow yourself to pray to Me with your heart doing the talking. 

 Some are afraid to because our prayers are from our head, from a piece of paper, but not really from our heart that holds the deepest of our treasures.

 We say “What should I say to God?”  Well what do you want to say to Me, really, really want to say to Me.

--  How much you ache to be better

---  how much you hurt from the past

---  how afraid you really are of death

 I do not mind at all if you read regular prayers as part of your devotion to Me. 

But do they say all that is on your heart?

 That is what I really want to hear. Because then you are really opening your heart so I can come in and dwell.

 Some even say rote prayers, so they do not have to let Me see their real heart. Almost as if they do not want Me to come in and dwell. 

 I am NOT condemning them --- perhaps it is even you who is reading these Words.

 Perhaps you have never thought to just chat with Me. 

 Well now I am writing you to chat with Me even if your first words to Me are “How are you doing Lord?”

 That is how you would chat with a friend, right?

 Am I your friend?  Or do you wish to keep Me far out there on a pedestal thinking, or telling yourself you are not worthy.

 This is a false thought. 

 You do not mean it as a false thought, but it is.

  I have called you worthy, My Beloved One, so you are never hearing from Me that you are not worthy.

 Oh, you can pick a passage from the Bible that says it would be better that a millstone be tied around you and you be thrown into the sea.

 But this is a teaching lesson. 

 You need to know the dire consequences of your action. 

 If you don’t, I would not be a Leader you could follow or trust.

 I will not leave you out there struggling to find the Truth. 

 I am Truth and will be most informative so as to keep you on the straight and narrow.

 I do not wish to leave you abandoned to try to figure out, on your own, what is good and what is bad for your dear soul.

 And I have told you, time and again, to come to Me if you are heavy burdened – that is, if you have not heeded My Advice and walked from the path that leads to Me.

 I have not said that you are not worthy to return to the path, time and time again if you feel you have strayed, and your precious conscience will lead you back to seek Me again.  

 Here is a great prayer “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, please bring me back to you faster and faster.”

 Do not let me linger out there in sin. 

 Give me the Grace of Courage to run back to you most quickly each time I stray from You.

 O, dear God help me pray more often through my day that You have given me.  The more I pray, the less I will sin. 

 I will be too busy calling on Your Precious Name.

 So, what do you want to say to Me right now.

  Let’s get heart to heart and put down all your prayers and take up praying to Me from your heart which only speaks your words to Me and no other words.

 This is a great adventure --- you making up your own prayer that comes from the true center of you. 

 I LOVE to hear your own heart voice speaking to Me.

 It sometimes takes more effort than taking time to read a printed prayer, but these printed prayers have come from someone’s heart too, so it shows you it can be done, right?

 Speak with Me, pray with Me.  I will help you draw out the words your heart is aching to say but doesn’t think it can say it flowery enough.

 Come let us pray together.  So many times you are praying to Me. 

 Now I ask you to come and pray with Me --- with our hearts speaking to each other.

 What rich, intimate words will be spoken!

 Come, pray with Me. 

 Remember I asked the apostles to do it and now I am asking you, an apostle in this time, to come pray with Me. 

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