PRAYER, Passion in
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PRAYER, PASSION IN
“All of us realize that prayer should not be dispassionate. As you read through the prayers of Scripture, notice the passion and intensity with which the person praying talked to God. In Psalm 51, a penitential psalm, David prayed with gut-wrenching passion. When Mary prayed the Magnificat after learning of God’s choice of her to bear the Messiah, she prayed with great intensity. When Hannah prayed for a son, it was with such passion that Eli, the old priest, thought she was drunk. Then consider our Lord in the garden as He prayed fervently, “My Father! . . . not as I will, btu as You will” (Matthew 26:39). Scripture is full of passionate praying.”
[Bryant & Brunson, The New Guidebook for Pastors, 101]