Prayer and intimacy

Wesley said, "In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is a continual prayer."

Filled with love...brings to mind Eph. 5:18, "And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit."  Or, in simpler contemporary words, getting drunk is a waste; allowing alcohol to control you leads to no good thing, so instead of being controlled by foolishness, be filled and controlled by the Spirit of God.  And God is love (I John 4:8), so the Spirit is love.  Be controlled or motivated by love.

And we have come full circle back to what Wesley said," In souls filled,(controlled) by love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.

If you are controlled by love, for God and for others, then you not only desire to please God, but do please God, for the first and second commandments in the New Testament call us to love God with our heart and soul and mind and then to, likewise, love one another. 

Now, think about how God views us when we are controlled by love for Him and for others.  It is as though we are singing the same song in harmony with His will and heart, and our actions fill the air with prayer, expressions of our love for Him. 

When I act in a loving way toward someone, see and meet a need, I am singing a song, praying lyrics of love into God's ear.

I don't need to worry about or feel guilty because I don't spend hours on my knees in prayer; I can sing a continual song of prayer simply by loving God and others.