It seems like everything I do lately I am being pointed to prayer! The book that I am reading, the Wednesday night small groups, and sermons I hear on the radio. The need for prayer is really on me right now. And I mean a real prayer, not just a well thought out and scripted one. One with some personal relevance and not one to just show off.
We talked about this at church last night about how Jesus warned of this in Matthew: 5 "And when you come before God, don't turn that into a theatrical production either. All these people making a regular show out of their prayers, hoping for stardom! Do you think God sits in a box seat? 6 "Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.
Matt 6:5-6 (MSG)
In his book; In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day, Mark Batterson says "without prayer you have good ideas, but when in prayer mode you have God ideas." That is a huge difference.
Are spending enough time in prayer? Are you having good ideas or God ideas? I hope that you will commit today to spend some uninterupted time with God just talking.
Have a Blessed Day!!!
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