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It is even better than that. Psalm 38:9 says,

“All my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.”

The Hebrew word there for sighing is breathing. My breathing. In this
connection, Lamentations 3:56 says, “Hide not Thy ear at my
breathing.” Isn’t that an interesting verse? “Hide not Thy ear at my
breathing.” Did you ever do this? Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. You prayed.
According to the Bible, you prayed. God hears your sigh. “Hide not
Thy ear at my breathing.” From my sighing. And so Psalms takes you
beyond words and shows you that God hears your groaning. Every time
you groan, you pray. Every time you sigh, you pray.

In Philippians chapter one when Paul said, “I thank God upon you and
every remembrance of you,” I used to think what Paul meant is when I
remember you then I say a prayer for you. That is not what he is saying.
He is not saying I will say a prayer for you every time you come to my
mind. He said the memory of you is prayer. Every time you think of a
friend, you have prayed for your friend. Every time it comes to your
mind. Because you are a Christian, God regards that thought as a prayer.
God hears your groaning as prayer. God hears your breathing as
prayer. What comes to your mind, God registers as a prayer. Prayer is
far more then we could ever guess.

Psalm 6:8, “Depart from me, all you who do iniquity, now listen to the
last part of Psalm 6:8,

“For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.”

Isn’t that something? “The LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.”
Tears have a voice. Tears have a vocabulary. Tears have a language.
Tears have a grammar. More eloquent than any prayer you will ever say
or any prayer I will ever say are tears shed in the will of God. You say, I
do not know how to pray. Do you know how to groan? You say, I do
not know how to pray? Do you know how to sigh? I do not know how
to pray. Did you ever cry? Did you ever weep? You prayed. That is
prayer, according to the Bible.

Now, I think every mother gets a little closer to this than we guys do.
We have six children, and every now and then they cry. Lillian could
always interpret that cry. It was amazing to me. It sounded the same to
me. Waaa waaa waaaa. Lillian said, oh, he needs to be changed. The

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