Many people think prayer is only a way of asking God for stuff. Do you know you can tell God about your day? Tell him about the frustrations. Thank him for the good things, no matter how low of significance it is. Tell him your plans. Ask him to bless your plans. He does help. He owns. Just remember to be respectful when venting! God rules and is life’s manager! Remember when asking for stuff to talk him,”God’s will be done.” So you talk to him, ask him stuff, and honor him by letting him veto or do you one better. He will not curse you for asking an edge case prayer. He really does like being talked to. He loves ya!
While God does love and admire selfless prayer, people without proper Biblical knowledge think they cannot come to God for things we could use and would like also. We keep Psalm 23 in mind, and let God that we’re not in want. We let God know we can get by with whatever he wills, but if we ask him for stuff we might like personally, or even stuff we could help others with but is still nice to have… Then that is fine. God never hears a person’s prayer with love and not hate in their heart and gets mad.
So pray. Pray for others. Pray for animals even. Pray that the government doesn’t go bad and places that it is bad that the people are more free. Pray everyone gets fed. Pray for the roads, skies and waters to be safe for vehicles and people. Pray the sick get taken care of and cured. Pray for emergency responders and those who put their lives on the line for freedom. Pray those in positions of power realize that God is in charge and go by his will and lead like Solomon, selflessly giving glory to God, and not for themselves at the expense of their people like so many leaders today. Pray just to talk to God about your day. And you’re allowed to pray for yourself too. Then have faith that God was stoked to hear from you.
Remember, God made himself part of humanity, that’s so deep. So many people failed him when you read the Bible. So if you just try to be good, he gets so stoked at you. God loves you if you just try. It is not “Do or Do Not”, that is what Yoda said. You gonna take your philosophy and religion from a Muppet? No. God says to try. We will fail, but we are to try to be good.
Romans 12:17 If someone has done you wrong, do not repay him with a wrong. Try to do what everyone considers to be good.
Luke 11:5 And Jesus said to his disciples, “Suppose one of you should go to a friend’s house at midnight and say, ‘Friend, let me borrow three loaves of bread. 6 A friend of mine who is on a trip has just come to my house, and I don’t have any food for him!’ 7 And suppose your friend should answer from inside, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ 8 Well, what then? I tell you that even if he will not get up and give you the bread because you are his friend, yet he will get up and give you everything you need because you are not ashamed to keep on asking. 9 And so I say to you: Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. 10 For those who ask will receive, and those who seek will find, and the door will be opened to anyone who knocks. 11 Would any of you who are fathers give your son a snake when he asks for fish? 12 Or would you give him a scorpion when he asks for an egg? 13 As bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more, then, will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
John 15:13 The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them. John 15:14 And you are my friends if you do what I command you.