Over the years, I’ve found that one common mistake believers make when they pray is that they do all the talking.
They spend their entire prayer time telling God about whatever problem they may be facing, and that’s it. Then they say, “Amen,” without taking time to listen to what God has to say.
Prayer is meant to be a dialogue, not a monologue!
All of us need to get the revelation one minister got about that years ago. Writing about it, he said that one day as he was lying prostrate on the floor before God, bawling and squalling about his troubles, it suddenly dawned on him: Here lies a fool who knows nothing, doing all the talking , to the One who knows everything. !
Most all of us have fit that description at one time or another. But as born-again, Spirit-filled people, we ought to know better than that. Rather than wringing our hands in prayer and saying, “Oh, God, I don’t know what I’m going to do!” we need to learn to pray as the Apostle Paul did—for God to fill us “with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding” (Colossians 1:9).
Then we ought to believe He’s going to do it and wait expectantly in His presence.
