The Journey Continues: Horizontal Prayer
"But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you." - Matthew 6:6, ESV I think that too often, Christians will see prayer as something they do, something the offer up, to God. They pray, envisioning a distant deity that may, or may not, hear them. They may feel, and sometimes they express, that their prayers are going up, but nothing's coming back. Their prayers are vertical. If one seeks to be in a relationship with God, then prayer is something different: it's horizontal. Picture this - instead of praying vertically, thinking God is "up there", pray as if He is seated next to you, or near you, close enough that you can see Him. Pray conversationally, as if you're bouncing ideas off of Him, rather than just submitting petitions for this or that. Sometimes, the best conversations are when there's give and take - when you state your mind, or a thought, ...
