Give us life, and we will call upon your name! Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved! Psalms 80:18-19
God’s supplies always provide for our obedience. I call this the echo effect in prayer. In a canyon, one can hear a repeat of words shouted out coming back as an echo. The words bouncing back are none other than the words of the speaker himself.
So it is with prayer. God first breathes into us his prayer-enabling power, and then we breathe out prayers back to him. Our prayers are mere echos of his enabling grace. Note the 3 requests in this verse. How are the two results connected to the three requests?