THE QUIET PLACE OF PRAYER

Prayer is worship. Our praying should be full of adoration, affection, and fondness for God, that He is who He is; that He created us in order to have someone on whom He could shower His love;
that He stretched out His arms on the cross; that He intends;
in the fullest sense, to make whole men and women out of us.

In worship, as the old word worth-ship implies, we declare what
we value the most. It's one of the best ways in the world to love God.

Prayer is the highest expression of our dependence on God.
It's asking for what we want. We can ask for anything -- even the most difficult things. "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,
present your requests to God.

Anything large enough to occupy our minds is large enough to hang
a prayer on.
Prayer, however, by its nature is requesting. It's not insisting of clamoring. We can make no demands of God or deals with Him.
Friends don't make demands. They ask and then wait.
We wait with patience and submission until God gives us what we request -- or something more.

Prayer is asking for understanding. It's the means by which we comprehend what God is saying to us in the Scriptures.
Prayer focuses and unites our fragmented hearts.

In the quiet place of prayer, God comforts, instructs, and
listens to us. There we learn to love and worship HIM.