Rewiring Our Minds

 

The prayer of a righteous person

has great power

as it is working.

  

           James 5. 16

That's how to pray.

Not if it works,

    but as it is 

           being completed. 

The power is not in us,

  but as God is working.

The great power is 

not just what God does

  with our circumstances,

  our apparent needs 

      or cries of our hearts.

But what God forms in us

  through the act of praying.

Praying rewires our minds.

And radically readjusts

             our loves.

Praying seeks and entreats God

       not in carefully scripted words

   but livestreaming our hearts

                before Him.

And God responds,

   I thought you'd never ask.

God grants far more

   than our meager requests

and most often in

          unexpected ways.

O LORD,

We come before You

   with needs and gaps

   and wounds and aching.

And You come before us

  with Your healing, strength

 and power we cannot imagine.

Praying empowers us

   not to get answers

or a package on our doorstep,

but to know You more.

As we see You differently,

     and pray differently,

we see others

    and circumstances differently,

and ultimately ourselves.

Rewire our minds

   even in this situation today.

Fill us with Your power

   not to handle it,

   or endure it,

but to bring You glory.