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64. Is Your Heart Connected? 02.04.20

So I’m in the shower singing my heart out to that song I posted earlier. I get to the lyrics “I don’t want to talk about you like you’re not in the room. I wanna look right at you, wanna sing right to you!” and I hear the Lord reply “Do you, Ash? It’s been a while since you’ve talked to me about things.” It shook me up and made me pause. You see, I’ve been doing a lot of praise and worship, I’ve been reading the word, I’ve gone on a mission trip and have been going to teachings and praying for others, but have I really been talking to the Lord about everything that’s on my mind? The answer is no, I haven’t.
I’ve been going to the Lord in prayer for others, prayer for my children, for my family members and friends. I’ve been going to the Lord in prayer and worship, listening for Him to speak to my heart. What I haven’t been doing like I used to, is talking to the Lord as if He’s right next to me. I haven’t been speaking to Him as if he cares about every little detail of the different things that I’m going through each day. I feel that this was His reminder to me that He cares about everything. He cares about your needs, He desires to have daily communication from you more than you could ever imagine. I’ve been trying to take myself and my needs out of the prayer equation because I felt that He already knows what I need and what I desire. I felt that He already had everything under control, I felt like it was disrespectful to keep coming to Him with my requests. What I lost with those thoughts was my conversational heart to heart connection with the Lord. You don’t always need to go to Him with a list of prayer requests a mile long, selfishly forgetting to praise Him for the things that you’re thankful for and that you already have, but you should feel that you can go to Him with anything that is on your heart. What I feel He desires from each of us, is that heart to heart connection. That connection that says no matter what you’re going through, I’m here for you. I feel that He wanted me to let everyone know that He expects us as His children to come to Him with anything that’s in our hearts or on our minds. Take it to the Lord and He will provide you comfort to get you through whatever you are dealing with.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 - Pray without ceasing.
Jeremiah 33:3 - Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
1 John 1:3 - That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 65:24 - And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

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