Nobody Else Can Hear

Matthew 6:5 “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.

You will never know God until you loose the religion in your prayers, praying from your heart, and not your head. You will never impress God by prideful sounding beautiful prayers that impress all that may hear, full of poetic sounding words that have religious overtones. You will never have the anointing of the power of God on your life, when you seek to draw attention to yourself by your ability to pray impressive prayers. But………God will draw you into an intimate, abiding, relationship through a humble heart that only seeks him. God will absolutely blow your mind when you realize the tangible evidence you not only feel in your soul, but witness the evidences of him around you; results of prayers from the heart, and not the prayers of the head. People that desire to hear from God, have never listened for God. People that seek to know God’s will for their lives, have only added religions obligations to their lists of how to accomplish their will, for their lives. Likely, they have even prayed many prayers asking God to help them along their way.

Jesus condemned the religious leaders of the day here. He pointed out how all of them that prayed to be heard, they had that as their only reward. Their “Thee’s and Thou’s and Art’s” were beautiful prayers that left many amazed, and marveled at their supposed godliness, but God was not impressed, and told them to enjoy their only reward, the accolades of men, not God. Jesus told those in this Sermon on the Mount, that he desired intimacy. He desired private prayers of the heart, to have an intimacy that was heavenly. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. That reward that he speaks of, is always just between you two. There are many times are others that he will allow you to witness of it to; he uses your answered prayers to encourage others to abide in him, but the intimacy of those answered prayers you can never properly articulate, because it is a heavenly bond created by the Creator.

Jesus wants the relationship with you, not the religion by you. He wants you to walk so closely with him that you begin to understand by glimpses he gives you of his sovereignty. John 15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. He wants to give you tangible evidence of his control of the universe. With these revelations, through this intimate, heartfelt, abiding walk with him, comes the peace that only he can provide in this crazy world we live in. He then uses that peace that you possess, to draw others to him through your life. It all begins with prayer, heartfelt pleas to a heavenly Father, when nobody else can hear.