Jeremiah TiptonFounder in president of David Hernandez ministries

Daughter amazes her Father with an unusual prayer...

4 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this short spoken anecdote, a father gently instructs his young daughter in bedtime prayer, demonstrating simple prayers each night. After a few evenings, he encourages her to pray on her own. The daughter responds by reciting the alphabet—"A, B, C…"—as her prayer. The father finds the scene amusing but lets it continue. Concerned that she may misunderstand prayer, he eventually intervenes, reminding her that prayer should be a conversation with God. The daughter insists she is indeed talking to God, merely offering the letters for Him to arrange as He wishes. The narrator then connects this innocent practice to the Christian concept of the "gift of tongues," describing it as "surrendered sounds" that flow to God beyond human meaning.

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A father was teaching his daughter how to pray. Each night before bed, the father would kneel alongside his daughter, demonstrating for her simple prayers. After a few nights of this, he explained, now that I've shown you how to pray, I want you to try to do this on your own. The following night, after tucking his daughter into bed, the father left the room and waited right outside the door to listen to his daughter pray. She prayed A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and so on with the alphabet. The father quietly laughed to himself and then went to bed. This continued for several nights. She would pray the ABCs. Finally, one night, not wanting his daughter to misunderstand prayer, the father interrupted and instructed, sweetie, I love that you're trying to pray, but when you pray, you have to actually talk to God. Dad, she replied, I am talking to God. I just give him the letters and he arranges the prayer however he wants. Well, this isn't exactly how the gift of tongues works. It's similar in that we pray surrendered sounds.