{"time":1706168571954,"blocks":[{"id":"Rr51x6-yJY","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"So, I was wondering why I could talk with dear friends over the phone for over an hour or two without even knowing time has gone that far and long. I began to think about that concerning my prayer life, yes I literally pray about everything, to the smallest details, like when I'm going out on a date😂, I pray before I go, make I no go fall God hand either in word or action, funny right😅? I tell God any and everything, but here's my concern; it's \"Praying Long\"."}},{"id":"-Mn1AfNqQ7","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Why should we pray long? After all, God hears, listens and even answers a simple \"God help me\", but then God laid this scenario in my heart, how I've been in relationships and even friendships where I looked forward to calling and having long conversations with them, we'd go on and on talking about experiences of the day, plans for the next day, ideas etc. This will go on for a long time and we would not seem have enough, we keep going until something else or a task or even take one party to say \"Oya o! Make we de go, we should catch up another time\" and you both would be looking forward to this other time. This thought hit me and I thought \"Hey! This is how it's supposed to be with prayer to God, right?\". But then, it's a struggle because with friends, you can hear them respond, laugh etc but with God it feels a little difficult, because you can't see Him or feel Him close, you can almost doubt He's listening or even feel unworthy to come to Him sometimes. But, I got reminded that Prayer is first \"believing\" (Faith) that the One you're talking to \"exists\" and is \"listening keenly\" to \"respond accordingly\". Hebrews 11: 6 captures it this way \"It's impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him \"."}},{"id":"KLVUF--byj","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Prayer is not just asking God for our every need, of course, we are allowed to ask for anything (Matt 7:7), He's our Father but how do you even ask from someone \"boldly\" when you have no relationship with them🤷🏾‍♀️? How do you even think of it? You can't even be sure because you doubt, you're between \"Will He agree or not \" because you don't know this person well enough, you don't know his abilities or capabilities and that's why you can't be confident in your asking. A relationship begins by a mutual agreement and constant meeting and conversations between both parties until walls are broken down to allow for vulnerability, confidence and companionship. It's the same with having a relationship with God. Scripture says, \"So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most \"~ (Heb 4:16 NLT). While we are commanded to come boldly at anytime and anyhow to God, He wants us to be so vulnerable with Him, trusting Him enough to tell Him about every single detail of our common everyday life to Him because He really is interested and invested in having that conversation, check this out \"So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him \"~ (Romans 12:1 MSG). So, talking to God should feel like you were speaking to the \"Boo🥰\", yeah? Exactly! That's what it should be, in doing so, you'd find that you're going on and on with the conversation with your \"Dada🥰\", your ultimate friend and companion and that's how you pray long! Not as though as you were doing so to win the title of \"Longest praying person\" but that you enjoy a relationship and fellowship with your Father, knowing He's giving you rapt attention."}},{"id":"jKNUeMjWaf","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Cheers🥂"}},{"id":"1liN3dp3WN","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"I Love You❤️"}}],"version":"2.28.2"}