Keith Craft: Prayer is both speaking and listening to God and not necessarily in that order.
Prayer is both speaking and listening to God and not necessarily in that order.
The thought behind the quote
John 15:7 gives us a parallel to Psalm 37:4 which says: "delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." In both John 15, and Psalm 37, the Bible tells us to abide in and delight in God first, and then think of what we want. Many people have prayed for what they want and have not gotten it. How could prayers go unanswered when the Bible tells us that “it will be done for you?”
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