Prayer is language used in personal relation to God. It gives us utterance to what we sense or want or respond to before God. God speaks to us; our answers are our prayers. The answers are not always articulate: silence, sighs, groanings - these all constitute responses The answers are not always positive: anger, skepticism, curses - these are also responses But always God is involved, whether in darkness or light, whether in faith or despair. This is hard to get used to. Our habit is to talk about God, not to Him. We love discussing God. The Psalms resist these discussions. They are not provided to teach us about God but to train us in responding to Him. We don't learn the Psalms until we are praying them.
Order of Worship, January 27 2013
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