The Missing Key

We find in Genesis 7 that God didn’t start talking to Noah, telling him to build an ark, and then stay silent.  He kept talking, as long as Noah kept listening and obeying. 

Read this:

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.  You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;  also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.  For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.” Noah did according to all that the Lord had commanded him.

He told him of certain danger coming to the earth, but if Noah obeyed he and his family would be saved.  He kept talking to Noah because Noah kept obeying what he had heard.

Here we read again that Noah continued to do all that God told him to do.

I don’t think prayer is just our petitions and praise going up.  I really think it starts with His directions and his voice going down…if we will just listen.

This is making me totally rethink prayer.

We often pray while driving, before eating, when our kids are sick, when we have a decision to make, and we are the initiators of the conversation to plead, beg, and ask for all that we need.

But it seems like in the beginning, God initiated the conversations and gave them purpose and directions on how to achieve those purposes, and all they had to do was agree and listen and obey.

Perhaps this is a missing key in our prayers?