The Simplicity of Prayer: Trusting God's Greatness

One beautiful thing is coming to me which is so simple. It says: 'Don't tell God how big your problem is; tell your problem how big God is.' All these things sound very childish and cliché almost, nice, but do we really try it? Have you ever tried in the mind saying, 'Oh this problem, what are you going to do? You have no money for next month.' Have you gone to that problem and said, 'Do you know how big God is?' So we have to apply in these simple ways sometimes. In not digging for deeper meaning, which can become an intellectual exercise, we lose track of the simple ways of having faith in God. I feel that's very important for the religious.

Yes, just in the simplicity. The mind is bothering you with the problem, saying, 'But God is so big, what is this for God?' Sometimes I struggle with the... and all of you know that first and which is that even with God I can be like this at times. It is I'm going on sharing, sharing, sharing, not waiting for Him to respond, not wanting to listen. So I'm learning that patience also, that let's at least, before it becomes a 9:10 or a 99:1, at least let me try and make it a 50/50 where I'm listening at least as much as I'm sharing. And just to be present in that way. That's what I mean, that we are being present to His presence.

So if you are praying to God and He's not responding, why would that be? We looked at all the variables: that either He doesn't love us, He doesn't have time, He's not powerful enough, we are blocking Him, He doesn't know at all. All these things we looked at and hopefully discarded. So then I will look at it as: what is He trying to teach me? He's teaching me to be patient. Suppose—okay, it's not true, I don't feel it's true—but suppose He said that I want those around me to be this certain way: patient, faithful, loving, humble. So He's just teaching me as to how He would like me to be if I am to be around Him.