Liquid Prayers

 People often share prayer concerns with me. Heavy burdens. Many of them are shared in confidence. They openly confess their oppressive loads. Sometimes they are heart wrenching, gut turning, and mind bewildering. 

There are times when the prayers cannot be heard in words. No words are adequately formed. Those prayers can be seen in liquid tears cascading down the cheeks. God sees and saves every drop of them in His bottle of remembrance. 

Psalm 56:8 (NASB)
⁸  You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?

Not one single tear is missed by God. Not one misty eyed prayer. Not one tear-soaked sob. They are all recorded and remembered. 

Some prayers are too deep for words. Groans of grief mixed with leaky eyes make some of the highest forms of prayer. Those tears communicate on a level much deeper than words can express. God is able to interpret every drop. To look beyond the cells into the sorrowful heart that caused them. He knows. He hears. He understands. He is attentive. 

Sometimes we work hard at suppressing broken hearted prayers with weeping. We want to appear strong. We do not want to be seen as weak, especially in pubic. Desperate people do not care what others think. They just need God. If their prayers become liquid, then so be it. We could use a few more liquid prayers in the house of God today. A few more broken people crying out for help. More grievous people pleading with God to bring the nation to repentance. More tear- stained altars. More weepy worshipers. More sobbing saints tender to the move of God.

 Liquid prayers are not to be avoided. They are to be embraced. Even when it makes onlookers uncomfortable. Many of these liquid prayers will be offered in the secret room in privacy. Nobody but God will ever see them. At other times, the tears will stream in public worship. Bleary eyes will water  tissues in intense intercessions. Either way, God saves them and remembers them. Take comfort in that brothers and sisters. Your liquid prayers do not go unnoticed.