“Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.…Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you…” (Ps 55:17, 22).
The Lord doesn’t just sustain your burden when cast on Him; He sustains you! Adrian Rogers writes: “The greatest problem we face is not unanswered prayer but unoffered prayer. And tragically, when we do pray, many of our prayers are so vague that if God were to answer them we wouldn’t even know. Prayer is not talking God into doing something that He ordinarily would not want to do. Rather it is the Holy Spirit finding a desire in the heart of the Father and then putting that desire in our hearts to return it in the form of a request to Him. We can do more than pray after we’ve prayed, but we can do no more than pray until we’ve prayed. Sometimes we don’t feel like praying. But if there were ever a time that we need to pray, it’s when we don’t feel like it. We need to pray on until we do feel like it!”