"I have learned to see prayer not as my way of establishing God's presence, rather as my way of responding to God's presence that is a fact whether or not I can detect it.... My feelings of God's presence--or God's absence--are not the presence or the absence ... prayer means keeping company with God who is already present."Yancey, Prayer, 51-52.
Joining His presence - this idea helps me tremendously. When I close my eyes, I try not to come to God with what Yancey called "consumer requests" but simply to spend time with Him, and to discern what God wants from me and not the other way around.
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