Magnificent Prayer #8
Magnificent Prayer #8
What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?
Mark 10:51 KJV
Do not pray without any desire in your heart. All prayers should be governed by heart desire. Look how our Lord pays attention to this. Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, cried out to the Lord: “Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.” The Lord Jesus answered him: “What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?”
Now the Lord will ask you precisely the same question: “What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?” Can you answer that question? Some brothers and sisters, after they have prayed for ten or twenty minutes, may not be able to tell you what they have asked God. Though many words are spoken in their prayer, nevertheless what is asked is even unknown to themselves. Such utterance is heartless and aimless and cannot be considered as prayer.
WATCHMAN NEE
Pray About It: Prayer begins with a desire in our heart. From there it works itself into our consciousness and we speak it in prayer to God. Such prayers are easily answerable because their genesis was in God Himself when He implanted the desire in our heart.
We can’t pray lifeless prayers and expect the God who offers abundant life to grant our requests. We must know what we want. Open your heart as you pray. Hear Jesus ask, “What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?”
Tell Him what you want.
If you have no definite purpose in prayer, you can expect no definite results from it. Be sure you know what you want before you pray and that God knows what you want when you are through.
NORMAN B. HARRISON
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