Anna Backens - outside reading - The Power of Crying Out

I have recently been reading small portions of a devotional called, "The Power of Crying Out", which contains different aspects of prayer and the process people undergo as they pray. The book draws very expansive boundaries for prayer; it doesn't box in one to a ritual but more of a desire to pray. The author states that man is suppose to "cry out" to God during times of prayer. He specifies that "crying out" is not to be taken in the literal sense but it can be interpreted as more of the meaning of the form. Also, the it was mentioned that as individuals pray, they then are able to understand and are given faith as an in exchange for their prayers. Much of society today is busy and the thought of faith is sometimes a fleeting one and to have trust in something other than yourself can be very difficult. Self-reliance is a large part of life and interactions. People trust in themselves because they feel they know themselves, but oddly, in the context of the Bible, it says that God knows the number of hairs on a man's head. An unusual notion to think that another knows you better than you know yourself.