Mooring Prayers

Seen it so many times as we return back to shore after the end of our fishing trips.

The boat slows towards the jetty. The boatman throws the rope to his assistant on the jetty. He then pulls the boat towards the jetty until it comes alongside before he firmly secure the rope on the mooring post.

Mooring is about pulling the boat towards jetty. It is never the other way around. It’s impossible. Has never been done and will never be done.

As with Mooring so is Praying.

Praying is not about pulling God toward us and getting Him to conform to our wills. Rather praying is about aligning our will with God’s will.

We see the greatest example of mooring prayer by our Lord Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Luke 22:42 “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.”

Therein Jesus shows us the intent of prayer. It is not to make God do our will but to bring our will in line with God’s will.

Often in prayers, it is our will that we want to see happening. The root reason why we find it so hard to accept the will of God is that we think that we know better than God. We believe that if we could get our way, we would be happy. We imagine that if all the events of life were arranged to suit our plans and ideas, everything would be all right. That is why we would rather pray, “Your will be changed” than “Your will be done.”

But Jesus taught us to pray “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

Only mooring prayers have the assurance and confidence to be heard.

1 John 5:14 says, “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.”

Mooring prayers on earth is moving God in heaven.

Let’s moor our prayers towards God’s will, purpose and desire.