Praying Hope

Praying hope is found in communication with our Creator. He knows our inmost hopes and dreams, thoughts and motives. When we pray, we connect with a power that is far greater then we can imagine with our finite minds. Hebrews 4:14 -16 reminds us that because we have a great High Priest (Jesus) in heaven Who is able to empathize with our weaknesses, and has been tempted in very way, yet did not sin, we can approach the throne of grace with confidence.

There's a garden where Jesus is waiting.

It's a place that's so wondrously fair.

And it glows with the light of His presence.

It's the beautiful garden of prayer.

Oh, that beautiful garden,
That garden of prayer.

Oh, that beautiful garden of prayer.

Where my Savior awaits,

And He opens the gates,

To that beautiful garden of prayer.

I come to the garden alone.

While the dew is still on the roses.

And the voice I hear, falling on my ear,

The Son of God discloses.

And He walks with me
And He talks with me,

And He tells me I am His own.

And the joy we share as we tarry there.

No other has ever known.

Sweet hour of prayer,
Sweet hour of prayer,

That calls me from a world of care,

And bids me at my Father's throne

Make all my wants and wishes known.
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In seasons of distress and grief,

My soul has often found relief,

And oft escaped the tempter's snare

At thy return, sweet hour of prayer.

I'd stay in the garden with Him
Tho' the night around me be falling.

But He bids me go with a voice of woe.

His voice to me is calling.

Oh, that beautiful garden,
The garden of prayer,

Oh, that beautiful garden of prayer.
Where my Savior awaits,
And He opens the gates,

To that beautiful garden of prayer.

May you spend much time in the garden of prayer with the Source of hope.