Prayer a Joy Beyond Measure

My desire to pray grew, but still could not open my mouth. I would pray in my heart. I would ask family and basically anyone to pray for me that God would open my mouth so that I could pray. About three months later one Sunday evening ,Sharon and I were putting Jonathan to bed, she asked me to pray. That was a challenge for me even though it was just us. In my heart I was saying Lord you know I love you, Sharon was silent and waiting for me to pray, what took about a minute seemed like eternity for me. It was like someone held me by the throat, that I could not speak. Eventually the words that came out of my mouth were THANK YOU JESUS, my first prayer . I experienced a joy that over whelmed me. Tears rolled down my face ,the Joy of THE LORD flooded my soul. It was like I was been set free! The devil was preventing me from speaking to my Father, fear and now I could open my mouth and say what was in my heart!
Thinking about this ,the Lord had to fill my heart with His word ,love, so that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh!