What Type of Ink Pens Your Prayers?

Prayer, simply defined, is the intercession of our needs to God’s ears, heart and hands. Yes, prayer should, also, be our giving praise, glory and thanksgiving to God; but unfortunately, today’s atmosphere is more asking than giving. This lopsided equation, however, is not what my soul longs to highlight in this moment. My focus is our choice of ink in penning our prayers.

Each prayer we offer is meant to grow our relationship with God. Our prayers are to be letters in a memo pad meant to connect us to God more securely and more deeply with each addition. Prayers are purposed not solely for our momentary needs but “soul”y for our lasting dependance on God’s will, way, blessings and protection. Herein, the significant question is do we pen our prayers in washable ink that blots away when answers are granted, times get better or worldly ways dominate over heavenly directions? Or are our prayers written to seek time with God, express our need for God and to bind us in God’s will and way? Prayer, such as this, inks our souls with the permanent marker of communicating with, listening to and receiving from our Heavenly Father. We all need to ask ourselves if our prayers are fundamentally for the eventual washed out here and now or the foundation for bringing us to our permanent, ever-after eternity with God in Heaven.

God never forgets any of us or our prayers. However, many of us feel like we need to re-introduce ourselves to God each time we choose to pray. That’s right, prayer is a choice, not a mandate; and the choice is ours, not God’s.

A good bookmark for how we ink our prayers is this. If we remind God who we are when approaching Him in prayer, then most likely, we rely on today’s resources (washable ink) to implore Him to afford us today’s desires. Once given, the prayer washes from our memory and gratitude. If we know God as our ever-present Father, then our prayers indelibly beseech Him to grant us today’s needs, tomorrow’s blessings and eternity’s reward. This is penning prayer in permanent ink!!!

“Then you will call upon Me, and I will hear you” Jeremiah 29:12 (ESV). With this promise written in forever truth, let us abandon prayer that washes away and holdfast to the permanence of perpetual prayer.