Prayer arithmetic, a practice of old,
Counting words and time, never growing bold.
Hypocrites who love to pray in public view,
For the praise of men, their reward is due.
But our Lord, He taught a different way,
Enter your closet, pray in secret and be heard today.
Vain repetitions, He does not desire,
For your Father knows your needs, before you even inquire.
He is not concerned with the length of our prayers,
Or the rhetoric and harmony that we share.
Not moved by logic or the company we keep,
But the heart, the Lord, He does truly seek.
So let us pray in Christ's name,
And for His sake, let our joy remain.
For through the Spirit, we are enabled to pray,
And our Father in heaven, He hears us today.
Forget the math, the show and the fame,
The Lord desires true hearts, praying in Jesus' name.
And in that, our joy shall be complete,
For our prayers are heard, our Father’s answers oh so sweet.
About Brandan Kraft
Brandan Kraft is a computer programmer from the Missouri Ozarks who has been writing about the sovereign grace of God since 1997. He started with a website called bornagain.net, built it into PristineGrace.org, and has published over two hundred articles, nearly sixty songs, and a growing catalog of podcasts from his living room in Ashland, Kentucky. All without permission from anyone.
He holds no seminary degree, no denominational endorsement, and no theological credentials. He has been writing software for the same employer since 1998. He thinks in systems and believes that the sharpest doctrine should produce the widest arms.
His systematic theology, A Thought in the Mind of God, derives every position from one sentence and applies it across every domain - from ontology to eschatology, from the nature of the human mind to the nature of heaven and hell. It is available at pristinegrace.org/mind.
Brandan lives in Ashland, Kentucky with his wife Angie and their son Cole. He plays trombone in the Marshall University Tri-State Brass Band and changes a diaper twice a day on a cat named OJ who was once paralyzed and whom nobody else wanted.
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