Prayer 2

Have you ever felt like you just couldn't pray? Things keep entering your thoughts or something pops up that needs your immediate attention and you just can't pray. You want to pray. You may even go into another room to get quiet and be alone yet, you just can't pray. I have felt this way. It happened to me this morning. The harder I tried to get quiet with God and pray the more I felt like I couldn't. Then I remembered the story of Samuel I had read a few weeks ago. I was struggling at that time too and the story of God calling to him really resonated with me so I answered the same way Samuel did. "Here am I, Lord." I can't tell you the peace that swept over me at that time. By giving myself completely over to God, Here am I, Lord, I set myself free. And that is what I did this morning. I wanted to pray ever so desperately but I just couldn't get my heart and mind to cooperate with my desire and then I remembered Samuel. I begin to pray, "Here am I, Lord. Here am I. Me an unworthy sinner with all my faults and failures, Here am I. Willing to be used by You." If we make ourselves available to Him, He will come to us. And that is just what He did with me. This morning. Right at this moment. God is near!