We stand to benefit so much through prayer
that it sometimes seems like we have everything to gain and nothing to give-but
that’s not the way the Lord looks at it at all! It’s true that we need Him for
all these things, but the marvelous thing is that He also needs and wants and
is in love with us. Time
and again, the Bible refers to us as His Bride,1 and nothing could better
describe the relationship He wants to have with us. So what does the Lord want
and need from you?-Much the same things a husband needs from his wife.
He desires loving fellowship and
heart-to-heart communication most of all. He wants to know that He has first
place in your heart, and the way you show Him that is by spending time with Him
in prayer and reading His Word.
He loves to hear you tell Him how wonderful
He is and how much you love Him, how you adore Him. He loves for you to praise
Him.
He wants to hear you tell Him how much you need Him. Just like a loving husband would,
He lives to supply your every need and knows what you need even better than you
do.1 Still, He likes for you to bring your requests to Him, because that
shows you are depending on Him. Even He needs to feel needed! And of course
once He has supplied your need, He loves for you to thank Him, to show
appreciation.
He needs your service. He wants to use you
as one of His instruments to help accomplish His will “on Earth as it is in
Heaven.”2 He especially needs you
to point others to Him and spread His love by being a sample of His loving ways
to them. But in order to know specifically what He wants you to do and how to do
it, you need to spend time with Him, receiving His directions. 
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