Sighing
"Give ear to my words, O Lord.
Consider my sighing."
Psalm 5
Listen very carefully to your sighs. Anything in your heart that is making you sigh needs to be turned into a prayer or you’re duck soup for the devil. Everything that you sigh about has got to be turned into a prayer or you’re going to be a frustrated, unhappy person. Or if you can’t pray for it, if you can’t ask God for it, then you need to stop sighing about it. You need to just take yourself in hand … You find the deepest sighings of your heart and when you find yourself, as you’re walking around, sighing after things, yearning for things, mourning after something, you’ve got to turn that into a prayer. Give ear to my sighings.
From a leadership training session on Personal Prayer by Tim Keller.