You might have noticed my recent fixation on prayer.  I’ve been going back through several books on prayer that I’ve read over the past few years and reviewing some of the more poignant points.

One book that I read for the first time several years ago is Too Busy Not To Pray by Bill Hybels, from Willow Creek.

In that book, he says this:

As you grow in prayer, God will reveal more of himself to you, breathing more of his life into your spirit.  Mark my words, that will be the most filling and rewarding part of your experience with prayer, more so even than the answers to prayer you are sure to receive.  Fellowship with God, trust, confidence, peace, relief – these wonderful feelings will be yours as you learn how to pray….

People are drawn to prayer because they know that God’s power flows primarily to people who pray….  Someone has said that when we work, we work; but when we pray, God works….  Skeptics may argue that answered prayers are only coincidences, but as an English archbishop once observed, “It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.”

That’s very encouraging to me.  I often wonder just how effective my prayers are, when I don’t see an immediate answer.  I know, God doesn’t always answer prayers when or how I think best.  I know that.  But it’s hard to believe in the power of prayer sometimes when you can’t see the effects  it has.

That’s why passages like this one from Hybels are so encouraging to me.  It’s a reminder I need… often.

What do you think?  Do you need a reminder now and then that your prayers are making a difference?

If you are interested in reading To Busy Not To Pray, by Bill Hybels, you can purchase it at Amazon.com.

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