Jeremiah Tipton warns against scripting prayers or demanding specific encounters with God, like feeling electricity or weeping. When you insist on a particular manifestation, you miss what God is actually doing. Stop telling Him what to do and wait instead.
You know, I talk to many believers who get in their own way. They're so desperate for a very specific kind of encounter with God that they fail to enjoy what God is doing in that moment. In other words, they look at someone who maybe felt the presence of God like electricity, or they remember a moment where they felt the weight of the glory enter the room, or they recall a time at a revival meeting where they were worshiping and the presence of God was felt so richly that they began to weep. Those are wonderful moments, and I think that God still has many of those in store But the problem comes when we try to dictate to God what kind of experience we're going to have in prayer. That will become a distraction from what God is actually doing. So when we come before the Lord, instead of saying, Lord, I want you to do this and this and this, I want to encounter you in this way and that way, stop trying to create the moment and just wait on the Lord. And as you wait on the Lord, the Lord will bring you into experiences that he has for you at the right moment, at the right time.
