A Penny For Your Prayers!
"And when you pray, you shall
not be like the hypocrites."
Matthew 6:5
Visitors to the 1893
World’s Fair in Chicago saw a machine
that took a penny and pressed a design of the Lord’s Prayer
into it. The coin would no longer be round but oval-shaped.
In the mid-1900s, self-service machines like this showed
up at vacation spots and amusement parks.
Some machines would also press nickels,
dimes, quarters,
and half-dollars to Lord’s Prayer tokens. Collector’s items
now, we
all know that a prayer on a smashed coin isn’t the
same as a prayer from a sincere heart.
The Lord’s Prayer shows us that we are not to pray like
the
heathen. While there are many ways to pray—using written
prayers, singing hymns addressed to God, and memorized
prayers—it’s important we pray sincerely and thoughtfully.
The Lord wants to hear cries of
praise and petition.
The Lord hears every single sigh and syllable of our
heartfelt prayers, and He goes to work providing the
answers we need.
Trust Him, and make sure your heart and mind are
working together in approaching the throne of grace.
"In prayer, it is better to have a
heart without words than words
without a
heart."
John Bunyan
