God loves it when we ask for His help. Did you know that God is interested in every single detail of your life and that He loves to hear from you? For years, I felt like I was bothering God with my prayers or, when I did pray, I was certain I wasn't doing it the right way. However, God never meant for prayer to be complicated. God desires for us to view prayer as a simple conversation with Him. It's asking Him to meet our needs or someone else's. It's praising Him and thanking Him. It's talking to Him about everything and anything that matters to us.
The dark night of the soul. This phenomenon describes a malady that the greatest of Christians have suffered from time to time. It was the malady that provoked David to soak his pillow with tears. It was the malady that earned for Jeremiah the sobriquet, "The Weeping Prophet." It was the malady that so afflicted Martin Luther that his melancholy threatened to destroy him. This is no ordinary fit of depression, but it is a depression that is linked to a crisis of faith, a crisis that comes when one senses the absence of God or gives rise to a feeling of abandonment by Him.
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." Hebrews 12:1 (KJV) Throughout scripture, one truth keeps rising to the surface: God is not only calling His people to believe, but to live ready. Ready for His coming, ready for His presence, ready for His voice, and ready for the life He has placed before us. The Christian life is not passive waiting; it is active surrender. There is a life that carries the awareness of eternity into every decision.