It’s between you and God

‘But when you pray, go into your room . . .’ Matthew 6.6

Before Jesus spoke these words, he had issued a warning about people who loved to stand in public places and pray loudly and expansively.  His point was that prayer is private between you and God.

Prayer is about going into your room to meet with God, and if you can catch this excitement and expectation as you begin to pray, then it could change your attitude to what’s about to happen.  Too often we think of prayer as us saying similar things to God as we said yesterday, but Jesus wants us to catch the reality that prayer is about having an encounter with the living God.  This is why we are going into our room – to meet with God.

To go into your room is about going somewhere private and personal.  God longs for this meeting with you and wants you to be real with him, not simply the person you think you ought to be.  Just be yourself, warts and all!

Going into your room to meet with God is such a personal invitation, and perhaps the best bit of all is that he will be there waiting for you.

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