Praying Well Through Lent: The Deep Things of God

As we approach this ‘Season of Lent’, we are to search the deep things of God.
We are required to go deep for 40 days, like a runner chasing a ball.
Are you contemplating changes in your life?
Place all your burdens on the Lord and enter this Lenten Season expecting definite results.
When you enter the deep, quiet places of God, “Go into the closet, and shut the door. Pray to your heavenly Father in secret”.
Oswald Chambers, in his book, My Utmost for His Highest, explains going to pray with the Father this way:
“Jesus did not say – Dream about thy Father in secret, but pray to thy Father in secret. Prayer is an effort of will. After we have entered our secret place and have shut the door, the most difficult thing to do is to pray; we cannot get our minds into working order, and the first thing that conflicts is wandering thoughts. The great battle in private prayer is the overcoming of mental wool-gathering. We have to discipline our minds and concentrate on willful prayer.
We must have a selected place for prayer and when we get there the plague of flies begins – This must be done, and that. “Shut thy door.” A secret silence means to shut the door deliberately on emotions and remember God. God is in secret, and He sees us from the secret place; He does not see us as other people see us, or as we see ourselves. When we live in the secret place it becomes impossible for us to doubt God, we become more sure of Him than of anything else. Your Father, Jesus says, is in secret and nowhere else. Enter the secret place, and right in the center of the common round you find God there all the time. Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God”.
Get ready to go deep. Amen.

About Rev. Patty

Rev. Patricia A. Zorn, M Div., MSC is the founder of Sacred Walk Home, A Ministry of Hope & Healing. She was ordained an Interfaith Minister in 1996 and a Catholic Woman Priest in 2005. Rev. Patty uses her gift of the written word; encouraging and inspiring others to develop a closer connection with Christ, while spreading the Good News of Hope & Healing to those in need of spiritual support.

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