April.08.04 - Light For The Day - "From the Heart" -- John 14:14 "If you ask anything in My name, I will do it." --------------------------- True prayer is only another name for the love of God.  Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him.  The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires.  To pray, then is to desire – but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays. Let him spend days in reciting prayers, in meditation or in inciting himself to pious exercises, he prays not once truly, if he really desires not the things he pretends to ask. -- Francois Fenelon --------------- -- Matthew 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." -- Ephesians 1:18 "I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the wonderful future he has promised to those he called. I want you to realize what a rich and glorious inheritance he has given to his people." -- Deuteronomy 30:6 "And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live." -- Psalms 119:7 "I will praise You with uprightness of heart, When I learn Your righteous judgments." -- Psalms 119:10, 11 "10 With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You!"