Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

God knows your needs before you ask, keep asking anyway

Matthew 6:7-15
Jesus said to his disciples:  "In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words.  Do not be like them.  Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

"This is how you are to pray:

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

"If you forgive men their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you.  But if you do not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions."

Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

Lord,
You know my needs before I ask.  You know what I want that is not good for me.  Lord, I ask for the same thing day after day.  J's return to your grace.

I don't understand this. I will do it but I do not understand

It is not for me but you.  When you pray you are conversing with me.  The babbling is not prayer.

Lord, I almost forgot, how I finally discovered or realized that praising and worshiping you is not for you but for me.

Lord,
you know that true joy, praise and worship brings to me, to us.  My heart sings and is filled with my love for you and I can only express it, as weak as it is through praise and worship of you.  The one and only living God.

All day long, I express my love to you and it fills me with joy.  Even thought it is not public and it is just between us, my heart swells with love.  I know love is not a feeling but joy is and you have given me more joy than I could have ever imagined.  I never knew what joy was and I'm sure I couldn't express it but I know what it is now and where it come from and I want everyone to possess it.  I want everyone to know you and love you and experience you the way I do.  Lord, is that possible?

Everyone experiences me differently but everyone has the capacity to experience me.  They have to want it, believe it and be open to me.  They have to seek me.  I am always there, but they have to seek me.  Some take longer than others.  Many have to fail before they seek or rather they seek but do not find because they are seeking the wrong things, in the wrong places.  They are seeking in this material world, and I am not there, not in things.

The accumulation of things is a diversion.  Everyone seeks the gift when the real gift is the giver.

Lord, help me to always keep my eyes on you.  Help me let go of all the things that take me away from you and your will for me.  Lord, give me peace and strength, the strength to resist what is not for me and what is bad for me.