Have You Heard?

Have you ever stopped to listen to yourself? As recently as just a few days ago, I did, and here is what I learned from what I heard...

When entering this conversation in no way did I think that it was going to be anything different than your average exchange of words. She talked a bit, I responded. I talked a bit, she returned the favor. You get what I'm saying.

Suddenly, something in the flow changed. It may sound a bit egotistic (yuck) but somewhere in that conversation, I began to hear my own words. As I spoke the words suggesting that someone in my life that I am terribly concerned about should try humbling themselves and literally praying, aloud, to God, it was if someone else were saying those exact words to me.

I heard the words of a verse , 2 Chronicles 7:14, as they echoed somewhere behind my own, telling me that if I humbled myself and prayed, God would hear me.

To anyone who is reading I ask this question...

Do you believe in the power of prayer? If you do believe, do you pray?