Prayer

There are moments in this life when prayer is the only thing left to do.

When the doctor sends you home without an answer or any hope. When the bills go unpaid and the fridge stays empty. When the marriage falls apart and your family feels broken beyond repair. When anxiety, depression, or anger overwhelm your every waking thoughts despite all you try. When addiction takes the one you love to places you can’t save them from. When there’s nothing our humanity can do to change the facts.

And so you step into the place where tears and words flow freely. You step into the place where humanity touches the eternal.

Where one who is sick meets the Healer. Where the one who is riddled with fear meets the Prince of Peace. Where the one wrapped in chains of addiction or bitterness or depression meets the Deliverer. Where the broken meets the Redeemer, the Restorer. Where the sinner meets the Savior.

You step into the place where your heart is transformed just as much as the needs you bring to your God. You step into the throne room of grace where your Jesus ever intercedes for you. And suddenly prayer is not the only thing you have, because now you have Him.

Prayer is not a waste, a last resort, or a time filler. It is not a magic lamp that grants your wishes if you ask. Prayer is divine communication between our fragile human hearts and our infinite Creator. Prayer is the opportunity to listen as much as it is to speak.

Prayer is not simply the only thing. Prayer is the greatest thing.