“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer” ~ Martin Luther
When it comes to the subject of prayer, it’s easy to become complacent and only engage in prayer when we need something urgent from God. Most of us learned to pray as children in some shape and form. As we mature in life, it’s easy to forgo this tradition of prayer and lean solely on self-reliance. Honestly, how much time do you spend in prayer a day, thirty minutes, five minutes, or only in desperate times? If you don’t use it, you will lose it!
Experts say that it takes twenty-one days to form a new habit. Let me encourage you to take your prayer life to a new level. If you rarely pray, then commit to praying once a day. If you pray daily, but only for a few minutes a day, increase your time, if only five minutes. Once you develop this spiritual discipline, you will no longer do without it than drinking fluids or eating food. God created us for a relationship, and the art of prayer and meditation is one of the many ways we nurture that relationship and grow in the world of the Spirit.
My Creator, my default in life, is self-reliance. I am still unclear about why, but I seem unwilling to find the privacy and time to be alone with You. Please help me know You better, grant me the desire and willingness to forgo going it alone, and step into our relationship with a more profound commitment than I have ever attempted before. In Your Spirit and Name, I pray these things. May Your will and not mine be done always. Amen.
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