Praying in co-operation with God

Sunday Mornings duty in camp has always been a time for me to intentionally be alone with God, although I would have definitely prefer to be in church to meet my youths, small grp members and fellow ymers i guess sometimes one need to be put in a situation where you are in Solitude.

God certainly has been teaching me and revealing quite a bit to me in the last couple days, as i started this long weekend since thursday morning (Battalion OFF on thurs & Friday) to start a simple spiritual journal in an old exercise book, And in just 4 days it has reached 14 page long already!

Below is extracted from my devotion today from EVERYDAY WITH JESUS , by Selwyn Hughes which i wrote in my spiritual journal.

"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. "Mark 11:24 (NIV)

Prayer is co-operation with god. Consider what is meant by this phrase co-operation with God. It is an exercise that links our faculties with our Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

Prayer isn't bending God's will to ours, But bending our will to His. We work out the Purposes which God has worked out for us.

A man sat and listened to an organist playing a beautiful melody. He said that, behind the organ, he could see a man striking upon bells the same notes the organ was playing. So in addition to the tones of the organ were the tones of the chimes, forming a beautiful accompaniment. Prayer is like that- it means we are striking the same notes as God. We thus becomes a part of a universal harmony- the music of the spheres. Our little notes are caught up and universalized.

Prayer puts us in tune with the infinite and then the infinite power works through our finiteness. Milton summed it up when he said, "By small accomplishing Great Things"