Consider your heart and words in your prayer

The heart is more important than words

‘The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.’ (1 Samuel 16:7)

The Lord says: ‘These people come near to me with their mouth and honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.’ (Isaiah 29:13)

  Godly church leaders throughout the centuries have recognized the priority of the heart over the words we use when it comes to prayer:

John Bunyan (1628–88), author of Pilgrim’s Progress:

‘When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words be without heart.’

Manser, Martin, and Mike Beaumont. 2020. Handbook of Bible Prayers. Manser and Beaumont.

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