One of the things I have missed about the blogging community is the group challenges. I used to participate in a lot of weekly challenges. I discovered that it helped me grow as a writer and as a person. So, as I come back to the blogosphere by bits and pieces I am going to try to join at least one challenge a week. This week’s challenge is called, STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS SATURDAY HOSTED BY LINDA G HILL. When you have finished here click the link and check out Linda’s other subscribers.
Linda has given us this to work with this week. Your prompt for #JusJoJan the 27th and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “make the call.” Use it as an idiom or use it literally. Have fun!
I get a lot of calls every week: family, parishioners, robocalls calls, ministry connections. I get even more e-mails (ugg my inbox ). But I think the most important call I get or make daily is the call to prayer.
We used to sing a song in church way back in the 1980’s entitled, JESUS ON THE MAINLINE. Here are the lyrics.
Jesus on the mainline, tell Him what you want.
Jesus on the mainline, tell Him what you want.
Jesus on the mainline, tell Him what you want,
Just call Him up and tell Him what you want.
2 If you want your body healed, tell Him what you want.
If you want your body healed, tell Him what you want.
If you want your body healed, tell Him what you want,
Just call Him up and tell Him what you want.
3 If you want your soul revived, tell Him what you want.
If you want your soul revived, tell Him what you want.
If you want your soul revived, tell Him what you want,
Just call Him up and tell Him what you want.
4 Call Him up, call Him up, tell Him what you want.
Call Him up, call Him up, tell Him what you want.
Call Him up, call Him up, tell Him what you want,
Just call Him up and tell Him what you want.
But the call of prayer is more than just telling Jesus what I want. The older I get the more I understand that the call of prayer is a call to LISTEN.
These days I have to admit I mostly don’t know what to pray for. It seems, everything has gotten so complicated. Half the time feel like the things I am asking for are far less than what God wants; so these days I find myself sitting in the prayer space and listening for the voice of God until I get some inspiration about how and what to pray.
IF YOU PRAY WHAT DOES PRAYER LOOK LIKE FOR YOU?
Lillie-Put 
God must be exhausted and so disappointed by the way we are treating each other and abusing him planet…..and all the requests/ demands we make on him!! … 💜💜💜
I don’t think not is possible to exhaust God. He is after all omnqeverything. I also know God loves to meet the needs of His people. But I am learning that if I wait in His presence He reveals to me how He is working on my behalf. Then prayer does not take the form of me asking or begging Him for things. It becomes me releasing Him into things to do what He wants to do in the first place.
I am very pleased to hear this…. It works for you. 💜💜