Today, we continue looking at Philippians 4: 6: ""Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." Let me share with you some instruction by Fenelon, one of the mystics of the Middle Ages, which seems to encompass what Paul meant when he said, “Pray about everything.” Tell God all that is in your heart, as one speaks honestly and freely from one’s heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your desires, that He may purify them; tell Him your dislikes, that He may help you to conquer them; talk to Him of your trials and temptations, that He may shield you from them; show Him the pains in your heart, that He may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell Him how self-love and selfishness makes you unjust to others, how pride tempts you to be insincere. If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want subjects of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back; neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration, just what they think. Blessed are they who can have an unreserved conversation with God. This is how we can overcome the world and not be given to compromise.
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