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INVIGORATE YOUR PRAYERS WITH A FOCUS ON GOD\u2019S MAJESTY.
\nI was late. I had stopped to get a vanilla latte and was now rushing into the Bible conference. The gymnasium was packed, and I grabbed the last spot on the floor. To my right were three university students who had brought their own seats. Each reclined on a neon-colored beanbag.
\n\u201cI\u2019m going to ask God to show up this morning,\u201d the speaker said as he invited us to join him in prayer.
\nI wish my coffee were a little warmer, I found myself thinking. One of the girls in the beanbags was already nodding off .\u00a0\u00a0 After the conference, I kept thinking about the speaker\u2019s bold request for God to show up. Did He? If He did, why didn\u2019t I notice?
\nAt ease or in awe?<\/strong>
\nMoses once made a similar request, but with different results.
\n\u201cLord, would You allow me to see Your glory?\u201d he pleaded (see Ex. 33:18).
\nGod\u2019s response is remarkable: \u201cYes, you may see My glory.\u201d\"Glory\"
\nThen God placed Moses in a cleft in the rock, covered him with His hand, and allowed Moses to see His back. Moses could not see God\u2019s face because, as one theologian explained, \u201cthe human family cannot look upon Yahweh and survive. The gap between the finite and the infinite is too great.\u201d But Moses did get a limited glimpse of God. What differentiated Moses from me was his view of God. Moses viewed God as holy and majestic; I viewed God as a gentle, soothing presence. Moses trembled when he thought of God;
\nI thought of God and was comforted. Moses was awestruck; I was at ease.
\nFeeling completely at ease with God was not wrong so much as it was imbalanced. In constantly relating to Him as my heavenly father and friend, I had forgotten that He is also, as the book of Hebrews states, \u201ca consuming fire\u201d (12:29). During my 30-year relationship with God I had slowly stripped Him of attributes that made me feel uncomfortable\u2014holiness, sovereignty, omniscience\u2014 and fixated on the ones I took comfort in\u2014kindness, trustworthiness, love, and patience. God had become reliable and reassuring.
\nYet I knew that maintaining a sense of awe toward God was crucial. In 20 years of ministry, I\u2019d both seen and experienced several repercussions of holding a diluted view of Him. For instance, lack of awe produces anxiety. Self-help books teach that success depends on the way I dress, the vocabulary I use, and the connections I make. In my efforts to make life work, I become like Martha, doing 10 things at once instead of resting at the Master\u2019s feet. Lack of awe also results in powerless evangelism. Today, people seem so closed to Christianity. Without a high view of God, sharing the gospel feels hopeless.
\nFaithlessness is another symptom of an awe-deprived life. When I forget God\u2019s greatness, I shrink life into goals I can manage. I pursue reasonable aspirations that require little risk. Accordingly, my prayers become calculated and timid. I\u2019ve also noticed that when awe of God is absent from my life, sin more easily enters. I may begin to transgress His laws without hesitation. Or I become comfortable in my sin and, consciously or unconsciously, delete confession from my prayers.<\/p>\n

The way back to wonder<\/strong>
\nConcerned that my concept of God had become unbalanced, I set out this past year to reclaim a majestic view of Him. I decided to focus on the aspect of my relationship with God that was the least awe-inspiring: my prayer life. Most of my praying happened during my 20-minute commute\u2014while I was changing lanes, checking my rearview mirror, answering my cell phone, or becoming irritated at the person ahead of me. My intentions were good; my prayers were distracted and weak. Even when I set time aside in the morning to pray\u2014sitting in my favorite chair with a cup of coff ee\u2014I often felt that I was just talking to myself. I fought off sleepiness by off ering random requests, speaking to God as though I were conversing with another person.<\/p>\n

Proceed with caution. The first thing I did to restore a sense of awe in my prayer life was to remind myself what prayer is\u2014communication with God. \u201cThat,\u201d Eugene Peterson explains, \u201cis why so many of the old masters counsel caution: Be slow to pray. This is not an enterprise to be entered into lightly.” And yet I entered into prayer lightly on a regular basis. I would start my car, take a sip of coffee from a travel mug, and begin praying. The was no pause, just a rush to engage God in communication. The same week I was thinking about my propensity to dash into God\u2019s presence, I had lunch with a well-known Christian author and philosopher. On the day of the lunch I arrived at his office five minutes early. I stood outside his door feeling slightly apprehensive. How should I address him? What questions did I most want to ask? How much could I joke with a man of his reputation? I took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
\nI was cautious to enter the presence of this well-respected man, yet where was my hesitation with God? Why no deep breath before entering His presence? I wondered. The most important thing about prayer, suggests Martyn Lloyd-Jones, is what you do before you pray. He advocates that we precede prayer with a time of introspection: \u201cWe should say to ourselves: \u2018I am now entering into the audience chamber of that God, the almighty, the absolute, the eternal and great God with all His power and His might and majesty, that God who is a consuming fire.\u2019\u201d
\nWe might also warm up for prayer by reading a psalm, such as Ps. 111:2-3 (NAS): Great are the works of the LORD; they are studied by all who delight in them. Splendid and majestic is His work, and His righteousness endures forever.\u00a0 God, in complete righteousness, has created every majestic and splendid thing I can imagine. When I remind myself of this, I approach Him with greater awe.
\nA good place to start.<\/strong> As I thought more about my conversations with God, I realized that almost all my prayers focused on things that aff ected me\u2014my family, my work, my hopes, and my aspirations. For example, six months ago my wife, three young sons, and I moved from North Carolina to southern California. The coast-to-coast move wreaked havoc in our lives, and my prayers during that time refl ected my state of mind:
\nDear Father,<\/em>
\n Thank You that You love me and are watching out for my family. Help Michael, Jason, and Jeremy make friends in their new school. Help Noreen find a Bible study that is as special to her as the one back home. Help me settle into my new ministry. And the cost of living is so expensive here . . .<\/em>
\nSuch prayers lacked a sense of the majesty of God. Between the \u201cDear Father\u201d and the perfunctory \u201cin Jesus\u2019 name\u201d was a litany of requests focusing on me and mine. How could I restore the awe?
\n\u201cIf we insist on being self-taught in prayer,\u201d suggests Eugene Peterson, \u201cour prayers, however eloquent, will be meager.\u201d<\/p>\n

I needed to be tutored by someone who had a clear picture of God\u2019s majesty. My search brought me to John Baillie. Baillie was an accomplished teacher and preacher who mentored believers in the discipline of prayer. Since 1950 more than a million copies of his book A Diary of Private Prayer have been sold around the world. I was immediately impressed by the weightiness of his prayers. Here\u2019s a sample: Here am I, O God, of little power and of mean estate, yet lifting up heart and voice to Thee before whom all created things are as dust and a vapor. Thou art hidden behind the curtain of sense, incomprehensible in Thy greatness, mysterious in Thine almighty power; yet here I speak with Thee familiarly as a child to a parent.<\/p>\n

O God above me, God who dwellest in light unapproachable, teach me, I beseech Thee, that even my highest thoughts of Thee are but dim and distant shadows of Thy transcendent glory. Almighty God, who of Thine infinite wisdom has ordained that I should live my life within these narrow bounds of time and circumstance, let me now go forth into the world with a brave and trustful heart. Initially these prayers made me feel as if I were reading Shakespeare for the firsttime. The words seemed odd and forced. Yet in Baillie\u2019s petitions I found an acute awareness of the majesty of God. Baillie was overwhelmed by God. Each of his prayers begins with the awesomeness of God, not Baillie\u2019s personal requests. Baillie\u2019s prayers gave me a starting point for my own. While I didn\u2019t try to make my prayers sound like his, I did try to begin by lingering on God\u2019s awe-inspiring attributes\u2014 wisdom, holiness, love, grace, sovereignty, omnipresence, and so on. I wanted to reach a point in my prayer where I\u2014like the psalmist\u2014simply said to God: \u201cSuch knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is too high, I cannot attain to it\u201d (Ps. 139:6, NAS).
\nStanding at attention. Watching the final scenes of To Kill a Mockingbird inspired another way to recapture awe in my prayer life. In the film, Atticus Finch, a Depression era attorney in the South, defends a black man accused of rape. To no one\u2019s surprise, an all-white jury convicts. As a dejected Finch leaves the courthouse, a group of African Americans stand silently in reverence for his courage and dignity.
\nDoes God deserve any less? I wondered. I decided that when praying privately I would stand to express my awe toward a righteous and courageous God. I also began raising my arms as I addressed God\u2014a response to Paul\u2019s instruction to \u201clift up holy hands in prayer\u201d (1 Tim. 2:8).
\nDoes God hear me better when I stand with my arms raised?<\/strong>
\nNo. But I become more attentive to what I am doing. In the communication courses I teach, I tell students that the goal of a good communicator is mindfulness. Mindfulness is being fully present in the moment. Standing with my arms raised helps me remember that I\u2019m communicating with a God who deserves my attention and respect.
\nNo distractions. As I pursued the majesty of God, I realized that I needed to devote time specifi cally to prayer. Praying in my car or on an exercise bike is not wrong.
\nPaul exhorts us to \u201cpray without ceasing\u201d (1 ess. 5:17, NAS). However, if I only pray while I\u2019m doing other things, then my prayer life is unbalanced.
\nIt\u2019s great that my wife and I can have quick conversations during a hectic day. But if that\u2019s all we do, it becomes a problem. We must cultivate times when the television is off , the kids are in bed, and we can have uninterrupted fellowship.
\nThe same is true with my communication with God. ere are times when I need to close out the world and give the majestic King my full attention and adoration.
\nHis excellency, our Abba<\/strong>
\nWhile my quest to restore awe to my walk with God continues, I have already noticed some changes. First, on some days I\u2019ve felt the Holy Spirit convict me not to pray for myself or my family. \u201cRest in the awesomeness of God today,\u201d He seems to say. On these days I do not ask God for anything. Putting aside my concerns to \u201cbe still, and know that [He is] God\u201d (Ps. 46:10) can be difficult. Yet after spending the bulk of my prayer time praising an almighty God of infinite wisdom, it seems reasonable to trust Him rather than to worry.
\nSecond, I\u2019ve discovered that my faith in God is proportional to my view of Him. As I develop a deeper awe for God, I more regularly anticipate\u2014and experience\u2014the kind of supernatural power Paul described to the Ephesians: \u201cNow to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think\u201d (Eph. 3:20, NKJV).
\nFor example, on the first night of a marriage conference at which I was speaking, I stood at the elevators with a couple. It was obvious they weren\u2019t doing well.
\n\u201cHow are you?\u201d I asked.
\n\u201cNot too good,\u201d the man said. His wife stood to the side, waiting for the elevator doors to open, tears running down her cheeks.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to make it,\u201d he said. There was an awkward silence. Their situation seemed hopeless. Yet Scripture says that in the hands of an almighty God, human hearts are like channels of water. In His power He can turn them as He wishes (Prov. 21:1). That night in my hotel room I prayed a bold prayer: I asked God to save that couple\u2019s marriage during the weekend.\u00a0 Sunday morning as I walked to the podium to speak, I saw a couple hugging each other and laughing. It was the couple I had spoken with at the elevators.
\n\u201cGod is getting hold of our hearts,\u201d the wife told me after the conference. Without a high view of God, I would not have believed such transformation were possible.
\nFinally, as I pursue the majesty of God, I\u2019m learning how to approach Him with both awe and intimacy. My friend\u2019s close relationship with the United States ambassador to a small island nation provides a picture of this balance. In addition to two drivers, a butler, three housekeepers, 24-hour security personnel, and a personal chef, the ambassador\u2019s staff includes a protocol officer. This officer explains to people how to relate to the ambassador: They should refer to her as \u201cHer Excellency\u201d or \u201cMadam Ambassador,\u201d and they should limit physical contact to a handshake unless she initiates an embrace.
\nMy friend can\u2019t help but chuckle when he hears these instructions\u2014because \u201cHer Excellency\u201d is his mom. While he stands in awe of his mom\u2019s accomplishments and title, he is also amazed by his special relationship to her.
\nFor believers, Jesus is our protocol officer. He shows us how we should relate to God. In the first six lines of His model prayer, Jesus tells us that God is a king who resides in heaven with all authority and power. Yet He is, and will always be, \u201cour Father.\u201d As His children, we must never lose our sense of awe at our special relationship to \u201cHis Excellency\u201d\u2014our Abba.
\nabout the author<\/strong>
\nTIM MUEHLHOFF serves with Grad Resources, helping prepare graduate students to thrive in higher education. He also teaches communication courses at Biola University. In addition to being a passionate fan of Detroit Red Wing hockey, Tim enjoys playing baseball with his three boys.
\nCopyright \u00a9 Discipleship Journal.\u00a0Used by permission of Discipleship Journal. Copyright \u00a9 Sept\/Oct. 2006, Issue 155, The Navigators. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved. www.navpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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