Prayer should never begin with our requests. The Lord already knows our needs when we enter into prayer and rarely do we truly know our needs. We know our desires, but how difficult it is for even the most advanced person of prayer to sift through and find their true needs and separate them out from their desires.
The Lord is like an expert jeweler who can tell when a diamond is really a diamond and when it is fake with just a glance. So let the expert gaze on you in prayer and pick out the diamonds so that he can use them to make a beautiful arrangement of that which most truly identifies you in the depths of your soul.
For to our Lord and savior your needs are more valuable to him than the most precious of diamonds. They are what the Lord longs to adorn himself with. Thus, he places them on his crown of thorns and becomes the king of your heart, which he yearns to be.
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