Did You Remember To Pray Today?
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. Through out history there are stories of Christians that prayed fervently several times each day, and some even constantly; never-ceasing.
Many times we look at these as if they are just stories, or as if these people were super human and could not do things like that today. I know I have led a start and stop kind of prayer life compared to them.
The good news and the bad news are the same. These people were and are real, and these are not just stories. I say it that way so we understand that we can pray like the many famous Christians that came before us because they were human, and struggled with life just like we do today.
In The Practice of the Presence of God Brother Lawrence talks about always being in connection with God and not ceasing in our prayers. He talks of taking time and really practicing to stay in Gods presence as much as possible.
You can live a life of prayer even in today’s society. We only need to be willing to do it.
It’ All In Our Habits
We think we don’t have enough time or we are not versed well enough in prayer, but those are quite possibly not all together true. Most of what we do in our daily lives are habits. Think for a minute. Have you ever said, “I forgot to pray today,” or “I forgot to read my bible”? We forget because we have not made prayer or bible study habits in our lives.
We don’t remember to pray because we are not in the habit of praying.
So how do we remember to pray? First we need to discover what prayer really is. Prayer is a conversation between us and God. Nothing more nothing less. Prayer isn’t a magic incantation that we can say to get something done. It is us talking to God, then listening to him talk to us.
Having A Conversation
If we are going to talk to God how do we start. Look at it this way. If you are trying to learn about a person you just met how would you do that. The best way is to just start talking and listening and Jesus gave us the model.
5 When you pray, don’t be like those show-offs who love to stand up and pray in the meeting places and on the street corners. They do this just to look good. I can assure you that they already have their reward.
6 When you pray, go into a room alone and close the door. Pray to your Father in private. He knows what is done in private, and he will reward you.
7 When you pray, don’t talk on and on as people do who don’t know God. They think God likes to hear long prayers. 8 Don’t be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask.
9 You should pray like this:
Our Father in heaven,
help us to honor
your name.10 Come and set up
your kingdom,
so that everyone on earth
will obey you,
as you are obeyed
in heaven.11 Give us our food for today.
12 Forgive us for doing wrong,
as we forgive others.13 Keep us from being tempted
and protect us from evil. (Mathew 6:5-13 CEV)
We take so much time to do other things, let’s start taking time while we are doing those to just have a conversation with God.
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About Steve Crenshaw
I do pray every morning when I wake up. I thank God for a new day and new life. Every night before I sleep, I alsol spend time with Him to give thanks for all the blessings He had given me for that day.
Only those people are really very successful in their lives who used to stay in God’s eyes. To achieve that we had to pray to God and also we should have to stay as much honest and respectful with human beings too.
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I do it every day. It helps a lot. Really
Awesome. I know what you mean.