A little story.(true)
I just came back from a 12 hour prayer meeting at my church, from about 10:00 am
through 10:00 pm. I came back home refreshed, filled with the Holy Spirit. Some of the
top leaders of our youth ministry gave very fruitful sermons, which convicted me a lot.
One of them was from Mark(name is changed) and he was supposed to speak about the
Prayer of Jabez. Now we flipped to the passage and he read it. Mark began talking about
having an intimate relationship with God, and that God should not be just my Provider.
Im not going to talk much about the sermon but you basically get the idea. One thing he
said that really stuck to me was "There are two types of prayer. One of them is petition,
asking God for my needs, spiritual and earthly. Like supplication, my individual needs.
The second kind is simply just talking to him like normal stuff, like a best friend."
Now this really got to me because I had only been doing the first type of prayer. You need
both to have a intimacy with God.
I went back home, got ready for bed, and was prayed a short prayer, asking God
to truly help me in this relationship where God would be more than my Provider,
he'd be my Counselor, my friend, my lover, my father, my just-everything. I got
into bed and turned off the light. I clearly heard the Holy Spirit telling me to pray.
It was late, and I really didn't feel like it. So I ignored it. (bad idea). But, I just
couldn't get comfortable falling asleep. I felt really hot, and I just couldn't sleep. I
heard the Holy Spirit once again, telling me that God wanted to hear my voice, he
wanted to hear me talk. So I got back out of bed, turned on the light and started
pacing and praying about this relationship, school, everything, for about a good
30 minutes. I was satisfied, and went back into bed. I was just starting to get
comfortable when-
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I just came back from a 12 hour prayer meeting at my church, from about 10:00 am
through 10:00 pm. I came back home refreshed, filled with the Holy Spirit. Some of the
top leaders of our youth ministry gave very fruitful sermons, which convicted me a lot.
One of them was from Mark(name is changed) and he was supposed to speak about the
Prayer of Jabez. Now we flipped to the passage and he read it. Mark began talking about
having an intimate relationship with God, and that God should not be just my Provider.
Im not going to talk much about the sermon but you basically get the idea. One thing he
said that really stuck to me was "There are two types of prayer. One of them is petition,
asking God for my needs, spiritual and earthly. Like supplication, my individual needs.
The second kind is simply just talking to him like normal stuff, like a best friend."
Now this really got to me because I had only been doing the first type of prayer. You need
both to have a intimacy with God.
I went back home, got ready for bed, and was prayed a short prayer, asking God
to truly help me in this relationship where God would be more than my Provider,
he'd be my Counselor, my friend, my lover, my father, my just-everything. I got
into bed and turned off the light. I clearly heard the Holy Spirit telling me to pray.
It was late, and I really didn't feel like it. So I ignored it. (bad idea). But, I just
couldn't get comfortable falling asleep. I felt really hot, and I just couldn't sleep. I
heard the Holy Spirit once again, telling me that God wanted to hear my voice, he
wanted to hear me talk. So I got back out of bed, turned on the light and started
pacing and praying about this relationship, school, everything, for about a good
30 minutes. I was satisfied, and went back into bed. I was just starting to get
comfortable when-
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