AHHHHH!

Are personal unspoken requests prayers soaked in pride. (This is assuming most personal unspoken prayer requests deal with personal sins and shame)

Why you ask?
What else would hold you back from asking for prayer without being willing to be vulnerable...other than self-image...pride...what others might think....

What kind of Body are we if we can't trust one another?

Can we really claim to love one another if we don't allow each other the security of understanding that they are safe to share their most vulnerable parts with us...

COME ON!!!!!!!! Why are we hiding from each other? None of us is perfect, why do we seem to think we should be viewed as more righteous than others??!?!?!

OHHH MAN I'M ABOUT TO BLOW UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think about Isaiah and what he says when he sees God....I am undone....he's basically saying...I'm exploded....all of us are.....our goods are junk....the wage for such pride in our junk is death

If all is known by God...and we'll be like Christ when we partake in "that Day," then when praying, "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven," isn't that also a call to lives of Truth...with nothing to hide...no secrecy? A body that does not act harmoniously (uncommunicative, not trusting ) is a body that doesn't get anywhere...it's uncoordinated...can't move...clumsy...lame....it needs to be healed...it needs what is commanded in James 5...."16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." The theme here is repentance and confession...it's a healing process...and it restores health...vitality...the movement of Blood throughout the Body...that cleansing flow...the life force of the Body. Jesus Christ our Lord and His atoning blood.

In all of this I'm not saying we shouldn't be uncaring about people's sensitivity...and love them, because we should want to love them and have to love then despite how vulnerable and open they are....regardless....BUT IF WE DESIRE TO BE CLOSER TO WHAT HE IS LIKE, then we have to act in accordance...thus our lives should be open for scrutiny (and they are whether we want them to be or not).....Psalm 17:3 "Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress".....