My talk today is on prayer.

And as I thought over my talks, I wondered if I had repeated the three points yesterday when I said I was going to start with it.

I probably forgot afterwards, but today

it will be, number one, be honest with God and with yourself. Number two, be patient with God,

and number three, be continually seeking his glory. And I think I mentioned yesterday that prayer is waiting on God as well as work is waiting on God.

You might have heard the old shaker proverb that life is worship.

All of life can be worship if we are truly seeking to love the Lord our God

with all our hearts, with all our minds, and with all our, what's the third one?

My mind went blank. Horatius Bonar wrote this lovely prayer

and all that my mother has been saying

and all that I've been saying I think can be summed up in this

it's not what I am oh Lord but what thou art

that that alone can be my soul's true rest

thy love not mine bids fear and doubt depart

instills the tempest of my tossing heart

I'm going to read it again because it is short enough for you all to copy if you

want to not what I am oh Lord but what thou art that that alone can be my soul's true rest

thy love not mine bids fear and doubt depart and stills the tempest of my tossing heart

be honest with god and with and still the tempest of my tossing heart.

Be honest with God and with yourself.

Psalm 139.

It's a very familiar Psalm, but it is the basis of prayer because we know that God knows our hearts, he knows our thoughts, he knows before we say something and before we think something, what is going to happen.

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