First Voice Entry

[This entry is a transcript of a voice-recorded journal entry]

I was thinking today on my way home from work about prayer – the journal entry that I wrote this afternoon – and how it all fits in to the information that’s contained in the Bible, and whether the journal entry is complete, and whether there’s anything else that would need to be added. I was thinking through that and it came to me that there are ideas that other Christians share that, of certain things – of certain ‘prescriptions’ – for how to address God. I was listening to a sermon from Miles (McPherson) and he was saying how the Psalms are written so that we have an understanding of how to address God. I feel like it came to me that perhaps those ‘prescriptions’ are valid, but they are part of a more fundamental approach, or more fundamental requirement (or truth) for hearing from God.

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Hearing From God

Lord, I am here, ready to receive your word.

You need to open up first.

What do you mean?

You need to initiate.

Isn’t being ready with a willing heart considered initiation?

No, Michael.

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