Simple Prayers

Simple prayers from an honest and humble heart are the most effective.

When you are in trouble, a long or poetic prayer is not necessary. Jesus tells of a man who beat his chest and couldn't look up. He went home more justified than the religious Pharisee (Luke 18:13).

Sometimes we go through a season when prayer seems like it dies on our lips. We can hardly speak from being so overwhelmed. There seems to be no words to capture what we are truly experiencing in the moment. The only words we can form is "Help me, God!". And that is enough for God to step in and bring relief.

We have a promise in Psalms 50:15 which says, "And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me." (KJV).

With a simple prayer comes an act of surrender. If we need God's help, guidance, direction or any number of things it requires letting go of trying to answer our own prayer. We may need an immediate answer so we say a quick prayer. If nothing should happen we taken action without waiting for God to respond.

The moment we call upon Him, we have to believe that He's setting into motion the answer. So much of God's work to answer our prayers is hidden, in the background and out of human sight. Why? He reserves the glory for Himself so no one can say this was a result of something I did that brought about an answer.

On a final note, Jeremiah 33:3 tell us, "Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known." (ESV).

A simple prayer is the most profound because God will take the weakest voice asking for help to reveal things that could not have been understood and known except to those who call upon Him in sincerity.