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To: Migraine
Thank YOU, and you're welcome.

Thank You, for saying what I was thinking but wasn't going to say.

Your post made me think more about Him and His Mysteries and again try to get my head around what I cannot get my head around.

I wonder if that sort of contemplation is a version of "being in constant prayer" that I've read about, but I'm not all that clear about that phrase/concept, either.

19 posted on 08/06/2016 11:01:07 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: GBA

I would posit that the “constant prayer” can’t be artificially forced, that it ought to be an answer of the soul to the copious promises and intents and thoughts of God. Think about those things, and then you’ll discover yourself talking to the Lord about them, in particular situations as well as in general, and that is the constant prayer He wants.

Early in my life as a believer I tried to make such prayer happen “just because it should” and that didn’t fly very well. My soul needed to see the merit of God in action. Funny how that happened to Job in the bible, too. That was probably the earliest written book in the canon. One could build up a great fortune and think it merited by one’s own efforts. But to see it all go bust, and then to get a lesson in God’s amazing providence to the point that one’s chatter about what one has earned simply goes silent, and then to gain by that providence — this will inspire prayers of supplication and gratitude by its sheer merit. God deserved this recognition; I didn’t.


24 posted on 08/06/2016 1:08:18 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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