Have you ever asked God to give you a parking spot closer to the door of a packed mall or store?

Have you ever asked the Lord’s help in finding your car keys, when you’re in a hurry out the door?

Have you ever even ask the Lord if you should go down this or that street, after getting an easy feeling about something?

If you have, there is nothing wrong with any of this, and frankly, we all do it. There is something very special about this Relationship with our Creator, Redeemer, and Friend – Abba Father, where we can just approach Him at any time, at any place, in any situation…and He hears us! The Lines of communication can only be buzzing with divine traffic if we are connected to the Source.  For this one of a kind relationship to work, we must only be free from sin and walk the talk. We have to be “ALL IN”.

It is easy for people to be “all in” for their sports team or non-profit organization, or even a political group. But for some reason, people in the church, sometimes consider that being “All In” for God is not just a bit too much to ask. Some even say this ministry of prayer is “those people on the prayer team” or the “pastoral staff” or….? I really do not know!

 This entire concept (of a “devious heart”) goes completely against every western concept that we are really “good people”. You would never hear about the “fallen nature” of man, or corruption of the human race; or even the word “sin”. Nobody, in these days of extreme political correctness would even think they (you and I) were born with a devious heart.