Meditative prayer is a wonderful tool to utilize in our walk with the Lord. I highly recommend Richard Foster’s little book, Sanctuary of the Soul, as a guide.

He finishes his teaching with this:

This transforming work does not happen all at once and not completely perhaps. But it does happen. The old games of manipulation and control begin losing their appeal to us. Guile becomes less and less a pattern of our daily life. A new compassion rises up within us for the bruised and broken and the dispossessed… We are becoming friends with Jesus (Jn. 15:14).

This is a work I am very weak in with my own prayer life. But the Lord favors me with beautiful moments. This last Sunday I didn’t have to preach and so as I worshiped with my parents at their church, the Lord spoke so clearly to me about ministry that is ahead. I was able to catch a moment to hear, to listen, to be transformed. Those are wonderful moments of grace I cherish so deeply.

Transformation is a slow process. Walk in it.