I have called upon You, for You will answer me, O God;Everyone talks about prayer, even many nonbelievers. Prayer is seen as a means of communicating with the supernatural. For most, that communication is one-way, merely sending one's thoughts out. Maybe someone listens, maybe not. For believers, there is the guarantee that someone is listening.
Incline your ear to me, hear my speech.
However, I have to admit, that I've always struggled with the answer part. You hear about the people who got a direct answer back from God, and "audible voice" types of things. I can only point to one time that happened with me, maybe. You hear about the physical answers to prayer, and those I can deal with better. But the idea that prayer is a conversation, that's never sat well with me. I can point to times where I was forming a thought or question or doubt in my head, and an answer immediately popped in, but I don't know if that's the Spirit responding, or just my ADD-full brain racing ahead. It's certainly never been any sort of conversation, of more than a couple words.
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