Dear Lord; I love our morning correspondence.\u00a0 It\u2019s become an important part of my day, and I find that it helps me to explore my motivations and feelings, and at the same time to get closer to You.\u00a0 Thank You for that.\u00a0 Last night during a quiet moment, I was thinking about our daily time together and it started me contemplating about what prayer really was and about how others commune with you.<\/p>\n
As children, the traditional \u201cpray on your knees, eyes closed, head bowed and hands pressed together\u201d was the de facto standard for us, and I know for many this is still the way they feel like they\u2019re best in contact with You.\u00a0 I know some who choose to sit in a quiet place, close their eyes and meditate to focus on what\u2019s in their heart.\u00a0 For many, I know that certain places can provide a more open conduit to hearing Your Voice (as I\u2019ve mentioned before, the woods of Blackbird Forest have that significance for me).\u00a0 And for a large number of people, attending regular Church Services are still their special time to hear Your Word and gain that Fellowship.<\/p>\n
So, here\u2019s my take on prayer Father.\u00a0 First off, I believe that if I leave my Spirit open to Faith then I\u2019m really in constant communication with You.\u00a0 You know my heart, and the more my relationship with You grows, the more I feel that I\u2019m always in Your Presence.\u00a0 In 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, it reads: “Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 By allowing the Spirit to fill my heart, I leave myself open to hearing Your Voice;\u00a0 That\u2019s prayer for me.\u00a0 And in writing these public emails to You Lord, I\u2019ve found yet another conduit to focus my thoughts, hopes and prayers, while hopefully inspiring others to listen in the Stillness for Your Voice, and to better revel in Your Grace.\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; I love our morning correspondence.\u00a0 It\u2019s become an important part of my day, and I find that it helps me to explore my motivations and feelings, and at the same time to get closer to You.\u00a0 Thank You for that.\u00a0 Last night during a quiet moment, I was thinking about our daily time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[219,198,223,153,214,216,220,42,59,140,224,13,222,218,215,217,205,92,95,66,221,71],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-church","tag-commune","tag-conduit","tag-contemplation","tag-correspondence","tag-feelings","tag-fellowship","tag-focus","tag-grace","tag-heart","tag-hopes","tag-inspiration","tag-joy","tag-meditate","tag-motivations","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-relationship","tag-spirit","tag-stillness","tag-thessalonians","tag-voice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-5X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}