transforming prayer

I stole that from our 614 leader Danielle Strickland (published in "Salvationism 301"):

"I'm talking about prayer that changes you from the inside out - glowworm style. The actual radiating glory of God radiating from you! And you can't keept it in... you are so in love with Jesus and so close to Him that He fills you with supernatural life and light!
You talk with Him like lovers do.
You tell Him your secrets and He responds with the desires of His heart for you.
You fall into this intimate encounter with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and
you not only call Him, master, you call Him friend.
You lose the Christian lingo and cultural habits and let loose with Him.
You share your heart - everthing in it.
You call out His promises.
You wait and listen.
You answer.
You change.
It's the bomb.

That's what prayer is all about. It's meant to transform you into the image of God. Jesus gets on the inside of you and His thoughts become your thoughts, and His ways your will. You spend time with the Creator of all and He invades you and causes you to be absolutely transformed just by bein in His presence."

I definitely want to trade some morning's prayer time with my thoughts wandering while I'm struggeling not to fall asleep and trying to calm down to listen to God's voice.

But - thank God - there are experiences that let me know that that's the truth about prayer.

"Jesus, teach me how to pray!"