A Dream about How to Pray

This is a real blessing:

I had been feeling for months ... "There is a better way to pray." This became a burden, and I prayed for the Lord to show me how.

I received this dream between Oct 8th and Nov 3rd, 2008 (somewhere in there... I usually can't remember the date in the middle of the night.)

A prayer is a prayer unless it is answered. When a prayer is answered, it is hope fulfilled. Hope fulfilled leads to endurance. Endurance leads to life eternal. And, this life eternal is the life I intended you to have.

Life eternal is the life I intended you to have.

An unanswered prayer is a tax on fortitude. And, fortitude, when it is broken, leads to brokenness. And, in brokenness, things can be received which are rarely hoped for when one is not broken. In brokenness, one relies only upon the Lord. In brokenness, one cries out from the heart, from the place of purity. When there is nothing, when there is no confrontation, then I hear you, then I answer you.

When there is the smallest bit of confrontation, of conflict, when what you are asking is pushing up against some other part of you, your prayer is damaged. It is not pure. And your prayer is limited. Pray to me, my sheep, in a broken voice, and I will hear you.

Pray to me. Pray to me, Pray to me to the point of abandonment, until your whole self is put aside, your whole self is pushed aside, thrust aside for the glory of the spirit. When your whole self is out of the way and the spirit has an open portal, an open doorway, the cry of the spirit is heard loud and beautiful and clear.

The cry of the spirit is heard, is heard, is heard, in brokenness. In brokenness things are possible which had not been desired, which had not been hoped for, which the heart did not dare to hope for. In the broken spirit, a cry for those things is made. Those things which you dare not hope for in fortitude, in personal strength.

Holy Lord, Holy Lord.