Re:Verse passage – Nehemiah 1:4–11 (day five) Good morning from Impact Youth Camp. I’ve had the privilege to be with our Students and Adult Leaders this week. My job at camp this year was to teach and encourage High School Students to consider and pursue “Intimacy with God”. One of the ways we find intimacy (growing closer) with God is through prayer. Just a couple of notes from this teaching time-
The speaking God not only has spoken, but He also listens – He stops, He stoops, He wants to hear from you. He stands ready to hear your voice, Christian, you have the ear of God. We call it prayer
Prayer, for the Christian, is not merely talking to God, but responding to the one who has initiated toward us. He has spoken first. This is not a conversation we start, but a relationship into which we’ve been drawn… Our asking and pleading, and requesting originate, not from our emptiness, but from his fullness.
God is more ready to hear us, than we are ready to pray.
We also included a pattern for prayer. (The how to section). Very familiar outline. I recommend using it. It’s actually found in our Re:verse passage this week in Nehemiah’s prayer. Can you find it?? Will you use it?
A- Adoration
C-Confession
T- Thanksgiving
S- Supplication
Can you find it?? Will you use it to guide and shape your prayers?
“It shouldn’t surprise us, then, to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God.” – David Mathis
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