Prayer is your lifeline.

No, that’s not the right picture.

Be careful what pictures you live by.

A lifeline sounds like you’re drowning in a raging sea, barely hanging on.

No, no, no.

Dear friend, prayer is the ocean!

The great deep of God’s judgements and mercy.

The vast expanses of holiness and wholeness.

The deep flowing rivers of abundant pleasure and joy.

All are entered through a beautiful doorway – the doorway of prayer!

The Holy Ghost said to me one time before I taught prayer in Bible School:

“Prayer is the place of entrance to the heart of God”

I have found this to be true.

As Scripture says:

“Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep (ocean): O LORD, thou preservest man and beast. How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.” (Psalm 36:5–8 KJV)

Drink deeply.