{"id":16203,"date":"2026-03-10T12:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/the-secret-to-a-blooming-prayer-life\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:01:07","slug":"the-secret-to-a-blooming-prayer-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/daily-devotions\/devotions-for-faith-prayer\/the-secret-to-a-blooming-prayer-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret to a Blooming Prayer Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was struggling with a particularly stubborn problem. I\u2019d prayed about it feverishly for several weeks, begging, pleading, but without any results. Then one evening I walked outside to get the paper and found my son Paul, who was a toddler, trying to pull open the petals on a tightly closed rosebud.<\/p>\n<p>He looked up at me wide-eyed and said, \u201cPaul make pretty flower bloom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As I heard myself explaining to him that you can\u2019t make a flower bloom by pulling on it, something clicked inside of me. I had been handling my problem the way Paul had handled the rose. By begging, pleading, trying to force an answer, I had been trying to manipulate God.<\/p>\n<p>I needed to take my hands off, wait patiently, and trust in the creative power of God to open up a right answer for me. When the answer did come, it was not what I had expected. It was better. 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