Repent

Good, effective praying starts with love for God in your heart – not with the need particularly, but with love for God.

God isn’t examining your track record as much as He is examining your love and commitment to him. Becoming a Christian involves: giving up idols, beginning true service, looking for Christ to return to earth.

There is that delicious freedom and commitment to God’s Will, whatever it may be, that the Holy Spirit of God produces when you pray, as we say, in the Spirit.

You have opportunity either to call attention to yourself, or to call attention to your Savior.

God wants you to come to the place where there isn’t anything held back.