God’s Line is Never Busy
Three ministers were talking about prayer one day, and they began debating among themselves the most effective positions for prayer. As they talked, they were totally oblivious to a telephone repairman working on the phone system in a corner of the room where they were sitting.
One minister contended that the key to prayer was in the hands. He always held his hands together to show a firmness of commitment and then pointed his hands upward as a symbolic form of worship. The second minister countered that real prayer could only be made if a person was on his knees. To him, that was the proper position for submission to God. The third suggested that the best position was to pray while stretched out flat on one’s face—the posture of supreme surrender.
By this time, the telephone repairman could no longer refrain from adding his opinion: “Well, I have found that the most powerful prayer I ever made was while I was suspended forty feet above the ground, dangling upside down by my heels from a telephone pole.”
God doesn’t care about the religious words connected with our prayers. He is always listening when we reach out to Him for help or just to talk. He can even hear your heart. Forget the formalities and give Him a call.