precious thoughts

I was drinking coffee during my quiet time last thursday. Then it hit me, I was having coffee with God! I didn't have a cuppa for Him through, don't think he needs His daily fix of caffeine, though I think He likes His daily fix with me.

Coffee, Tea, or me?

Psalms 138: 17 "How precious to me are Your thoughts, o God! How vast is the sum of them."

I've been reading "Growing Deep in God" by Edmund Chan, and it talks about integrating prayer with theology. This is important because prayer is contingent upon right theology. Imagine praying the wrong things! (God, please heal so and so from cancer, although God may want for so and so to go home with Him)

A definition of prayer is "what the Holy Spirit" inspires in our hearts to lift up to the throne of God. Therefore, when we pray, we should not just "say" our prayers, going down list of things that we would like God to fulfill, but rather, we should ask the Holy Spirit what God wants us to pray for, and when he impresses something upon our hearts, we should then "pray" it.

Which brings to light the above verse. If praying means, lifting up the thoughts of God to Him, then His thoughts much be what we seek, and what we ask Him to reveal to us.

O God! How precious are Your thoughts to me!