How important is it to you?

I once heard someone ask, "if it is not important to you, why should it be important to God?" As I was meditating on this the other day, I sensed the Lord ask me a question. "What if the intensity of My answer was directly proportional to the intensity of your prayer?" I knew He was not referring to the volume of my prayer, but to the intensity of passion in my heart to seek after Him in prayer and cooperate with Him in the answer. "For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return." Luke 6:38