Insights are another way that God speaks in prayer. Perhaps you’re praying for clarity, and you receive an insight that allows you to see things in a new light. You may see a novel way of approaching an old problem. Or you may, in a flash, perceive something surprising about God. Let’s say you’re reading a Gospel story that speaks of Jesus going off to pray by himself. You might have heard this story many times, but this time an insight arrives: If even Jesus could take time off from his busy schedule to pray, perhaps I could do the same. Here the experience is not so much emotional as
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