Real Praying

'PRAYER, without fervour, stakes nothing on the issue, because it has nothing to stake.It comes with empty hands. Hands, too, which are listless, as well as empty, which haven ever learned the lesson of clinging to the Cross.

Fervourless prayer has no heart in it; it is an empty thing, an unfit vessel. Heart, soul, and life, must find place in all real praying. Heaven must be made to feel the force of this crying unto God.'

Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER  By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 22)

*******Jas_5:16  ...The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 

A heartless prayer - what does it mean? Saying a prayer without heart is truly empty, truly meaningless, it's worthless and yet how many of us mouth words by rote, with just barely a thought to the God we are praying? Seriously! When we invoke the name of our God, our Heavenly Father, do we do it with heart? With true heart? Are we realizing that we are seeking the CREATOR when we pray? Are we realizing that we are seeking to gain the attention of our LORD?  Seriously, we tend to stand in awe of being in the presence of other human beings who have gain notoriety of some sort. An actor passes by us and we are quick to take pictures, to tell all our friends and family about the encounter. Others are envious of us and our brush with the famous. You know what I'm talking about. Even when someone we know pops up on the local news channel, we are busy recording it and pointing it out to others. We do these things for human beings just like us and yet when we bring ourselves into the presence of our LORD in prayer, we seek Him, really seek Him to hear us to acknowledge us, and yet why aren't we praying in awe of Him? Why aren't we praying with fervor as we implore our GOD in prayer?

'Crying unto God' -  

Exo_2:23  And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they CRIED, and their CRY came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 

Exo_3:7  And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their CRY by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows

Exo_3:9  Now therefore, behold, the CRY of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 

God HEARS our CRIES to Him!

1Sa_7:8  And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.

The people wanted Samuel their priest, their prophet to cry to the LORD for them. 

1Sa_9:16  ... for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me. 

Again… 'their cry' is heard.  Why do we imagine we don't need to cry out to God?

2Sa_22:7  In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. 

1Ki_8:28  Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day

In distress we cry, we make supplication, we cry and pray!

Psa_5:2  Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. Psa_9:12  When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. 

Cry!

Psa_27:7  Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Psa_28:1  A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. 

Psa_34:15  The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. 

Psa_119:169  TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word. 

Luk_18:7  And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 

Rom_8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 

We need to cry to our God, we need to pray with fervor! Please, Lord, please help us to be on fire for You! Help us to realize that You are everything! Help us Savior, help us to seek You with all our heart! Please, Satan would have us dead inside, Satan would have our prayers lifeless, empty, meaningless, void of all things real and sincere, all things that would have us on fire for YOU! 

Bless us in Your mercy!

Thank You, Lord!