This document discusses 10 hidden mysteries of prayer. It addresses topics such as feeling closest to God when feeling worst, showing up being a form of prayer, overexcitement not necessarily causing answered prayers, sin separating people from God's love, hating sin being a form of loving God, distractions not ruining prayer time, passion not being required for prayer, not needing to tell everyone about messages from God, praying scripture and spontaneously both being powerful, and obeying God being the best way to grow intimacy with Him.

1. 10 Top Hidden Mysteries in Prayer
From Rodney A Drury
Peoria Prayer Center
and
Redneck Mystic Media

2. 1
Your best prayers may be when you feel the worst.
When we are the most excited, most passionate, we
believe the Lord feels the same way. This is simply
not true.

3. When people do the right thing and don’t get a
reward for it, like good feelings, do you love them
less for lack of feelings? More of God’s love may be
present when you feel less of it.

4. 2
Showing up counts as prayer.
Sitting in God’s presence, waiting on the Lord,
regardless of what else happens, counts as
communion with God

5. “Be still and know that I am God” is a real thing. If
rocks can cry out just by being there, so can we.
Rock on!

6. 3
Overexcitement, positive passion may be the
reward for your prayer.
Yep. When we draw attention to ourselves we
might also be receiving the full reward for our
prayers. Attention.

7. Thinking your energy, your passion or your
fervency is the cause to answered prayers is not
good. Passion with a spirit of self-control allows
God to get the glory for being God and not us.

8. 4
Anyone can love God.
Not true. Sin separates us from the love of God and
from loving God. Don’t assume people separated
from God can love Him.

9. Repentance and forgiveness are real. They allow sin
to be broken and the heart to be awakened. If you
have gone years without repenting, confessing your
sin or asking for forgiveness, you might want to
give it a try.

10. 5
Hate is a part of loving God.
Yep, that is true.

11. Hating sin, hating your desire to sin, hating your
willingness to sin all are ways to love God. In fact,
most lingering sin cannot be broken unless you
hate, despise or at least dislike that sin.

12. 6
Constant distractions ruin your prayer time.
No, that is not true. They may ruin you enjoying
your prayer time, but God is not bothered by them.

13. When you are trying to pray and distractinons
keep knocking at your heart’s door, it’s ok. It is
normal. It is to be expected that the world and
temptation will want in.
Turning away from the distraction and back
toward God is a great way to spend an hour or a
day in prayer.

14. 7
If you’re not praying with passion, you’re not
praying.
Nope, not true.

15. It’s great to have passion. But it’s a gift from God.
Can you fake passion? Can you work it up? I hope
not.
While few of us like duty, it is enough to be the
kind of child of God who does what God desires
regardless of how we feel. Some people have more
passion when they don’t try to have some.

16. 8
If you hear something from God, you should tell
everyone you can.
No, most things we hear from God are for us. Be
like Mary, the mother of Jesus, and ponder those
words more than proclaim them.

17. There is a temptation to let people know “I’m
spiritual,” “I hear from God.” We all want to be
validated. We all want to be have significance. Just
be mindful of how your needs might be affecting
His gifts.

18. 9
Praying scripture is more powerful than praying
spontaneously from your heart.
All the words we say come from the heart, so no,
this is not true.

19. You can pray scripture like an echo, just a sound
bouncing around. That is an echo and not a prayer.
But your can read a prayer and from your heart
cry out. Then it’s not a echo but a cry.
But it can be tricky. Some people thinking they are
only an echo are crying out loud to God. Thank God
He is the judge and were not.

20. 10
The best, fastest and most reliable way to grow in
intimacy with God and to enjoy Him is to OBEY.
Yep, that’s true.

21. People try to depend on gifts, anointing, callings or
other methods of intimacy with God. Remember
God did not know some people performing
miracles.
Obey God and His love will fill you more and more.
Even if no one else knows you are obeying, God
knows.

22. Let’s Pray
Right now, look up at God and smile.
With all your heart say, “I love you.”
Don’t worry much about how it feels.