Monday, July 7, 2008

What makes you want to pray?


What does it take to get you in a praying mood? What stirs you to want to pray more?

Does it take a crisis? Or an ongoing illness? Or an unnamed dread that forecasts a dark future as you hear scary news about someone else's tragedy?

Or does it take reading a stirring book on prayer? Or hearing a preacher or teacher paint an exciting portrait of the power of prayer?

And why is it so hard to pray... at least to pray regularly? What keeps you from praying more often? What are the road blocks, the barriers to regular, intimate prayer?

What solutions have you found? What works and what doesn't?

Let me know and we'll pass your ideas on to others.

Keep on praying!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The most important thing I've found to keep praying on a regular basis is to have a set time to pray, an appointment with God, and to make it a priority to keep that appointment. Keeping a prayer journal with dates in it has helped as well because when I open it up, it has the date of the last time I prayer journaled. If the date wasn't yesterday, then I know it's been too long. Keeping a prayer journal is something I learned to practice through The School of Prayer's courses.