What Am I Missing?

This story is about prayer, our need for it right now in this world, and my deficiency and inability to do it well.

I was playing disc golf the other day and lost my favorite long-distance driver in the tall grass. I walked all over the place looking for that thing. I couldn't find it anywhere. I was getting sad and frustrated.

Finally, after about 30 minutes of searching, a verse came to mind.

"You do not have because you do not ask." - James 4:2

I'm not going to pray for God to help me find my disc. He's got more important things to do these days. That's when another thought popped into me head and I prayed a short little prayer.

"Lord, what am I missing?"

The answer came quickly.

Get down on your hands and knees.

So I followed that "suggestion" and within 2-3 minutes I had found my disc.

"Thank you, Lord!"

That whole searching process made me examine my prayer life. And honestly, I found it lacking. Are my prayers REALLY heart-felt? Do my prayers convey a sense of urgency and dependence on God? Am I so desperate in prayer that I fall down on my hands and knees and pray earnestly for God's will to be done, and not my own?

Too many times I have gone through my laundry-list of prayer requests. In doing so, am I treating God like a magic genie? DO I make my three wishes and say 'amen'? I hope not.

This world needs prayer. I think it is now beyond the time for "now I lay me down to sleep" type prayers and time to 'put on the full armor of God' prayers. We need to be warriors now! Prayer warriors! Can I get an 'amen'?

Let's get busy doing God's will in our lives and let us be found doing so when He returns. Which may literally be any moment now. Pray!!