_{I love the Lord because He hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. Because He bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!" (Psalm 116:1-2 NLT).}

_{One way to worship God is to talk to Him.When you really love somebody you don't just want to spend time with that person, you want to talk with him or her, also. Think about two teenagers falling in love; they're on the phone all the time.}

_{They talk and talk and talk. They're getting to know each other. That's how you get to know someone—through communication. If your spouse never, ever talks to you, you have every reason to start wondering, "Do they love me?"And that's why we show God we love Him when we talk to Him.}

_{What do you talk to God about during this kind of worship? Anything that you'd talk to your best friend about: your hopes, your fears, your dreams, your anxieties, the things you're proud of, the things you're ashamed of, your goals, your ambitions, your hurts, your cares, every part of your life. You come to God and you talk to God about anything and everything.}

_{The Bible says, "I love the Lord because He hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. Because He bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!" (Psalm 116:1-2 NLT).}

_{If you don't feel close to God, there's a simple remedy for that: start talking to Him! He has invited you to talk with Him; He wants to talk with you. Prayer is not some duty that you have to do.}

_{It's a privilege that you get to do. You get to talk to the Creator of the universe.You may be saying, "I'd like to have more prayer time with God. I'd like to talk to God. I just don't have the time." Then you're too busy.}

_{You'll never have the time; you must make the time to pray. If your Christian life has become routine, dull, and joyless, then take that to God and talk to Him.}  

Thomas, thanks for those words of inspiration and advice.

Hello Thomas

That is very good!!  May I use it for my private list?

Who wrote it?  Whoever it was they did a good job.

Thanks!

Helen

_{Hi Helen, good to see you :) And Shirley too,}

_{your both welcome to use it, i took it from my personal lists of writings. Have a great day my friends!}

_{God_bless you} 

Wow, look at that pretty flower above! Hey Tommy, Yes brother, We can talk to God just like to a good friend, and he is right there to hear, and also answer! He's not way up in the sky like we often think, but one day when we "know as we are known" and "see" fully what we only see in part today, we will then know that Jesus is in "all" the rooms of our life "all" the time!! He's seeing and hearing "all" we say and do, and not from a great distance! If we only knew. Oh Tom, ever since that healing of Phil's some time ago, I just marvel, to notice, that every single solitary time I ask God something or for something, he answers! Because of his amazing love that he remains so faithful to all his promises to me, I am really very careful when I ask anything. I don't just ask for whims but as you would respect a good father on earth, I ask him when I really need, and with respect for what is good and right in his eyes, and I just stay amazed at how quickly he always answers! I wish everyone could really know how he loves us all, and how like a good father he so much wants us to come to him when we need, and how if we just really believe him, like a child believes in their daddy, that he wants so much to help us, to come to our rescue... But so often we look in every direction but him, and leave him out, so that he can't answer because we don't ask him to. Yes Tom, I Love him more than all this life, more than all people, and I love my people and even other people, but there is no Love like his toward me so that he is my greatest love, and really, it's out of his love that I find even more love for other people. Kim