God Wants me to Pray!
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and
watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; Ephesians
6:18
Pray without ceasing. 1
Thessalonians 5:17
This year the Lord has impressed on my heart that my prayer life
can be so much more than it has been. I’ve had a prayer life, some
years better than others. I’ve always struggled with how to organize
my prayer life. Lists seem too much like I’m just reading an
inventory of things I want rather than sincere heartfelt requests to
God. Prayer “straight from whatever is on my mind” has seemed too
scattered, jumping here and there – so I have been praying all throughout the
day as thoughts cross my mind, people’s needs come to my memory, or as I look
at social media and people ask for prayer requests; sometimes I have prayed for
someone because the time on the clock is their birthday. I’ve been
praying – basically talking to God almost all day long, and yet, my prayer life
still seemed not intimate enough, not the one-on-one conversation I wish to
have with God.
I long for my prayer life to be a time where I know that I am in
communion with my God, just the two of us with no interruptions or
distractions. In my longing, I chose my theme for this year to be
prayer – and as it turns out perhaps nothing is more important than
prayer this year!
This year our country is in a situation I’ve never lived
through. We are politically separated, and there seems to be no
tolerance for disagreement. I see Christians even adopting the
cancel culture – the idea of writing people off because they don’t agree with
you or support your ideas. On top of that we have the pandemic and
quarantine, which also seems to be politically charged to the point that
families are at odds against each other.
Though I have chosen this theme for this year, I must admit, I
have still struggled with just how to get my prayer time to where I want it to
be. The Lord knows I have been trying and this week He brought me
special help through my husband.
For the last several months we have been going back and forth with a furniture company because the sofa bed we purchased was defective, and the frame that held the mattress was broken. Finally, this past week my husband went in to see if we could get the problem resolved. While there he spotted a chair that was on sale for an incredibly good price; he bought it thinking it would be helpful to put in our closet so I could sit to put my shoes on. At first, I thought it was almost silly – I didn’t NEED a chair to sit on to put my shoes on, plus we have a chair in our room, but I received it as a blessing of my husband’s thoughtfulness of my needs.
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This afternoon, after my prayer time I spoke to my husband and
asked if he had purchased the chair for me for that reason, and he said that he
just thought it was a nice chair and that it would be nice for me to have
it. We both marveled at how God moved him to buy the chair so I
could have a place, my own prayer closet, so I could spend time with my Savior
and my God.
God doesn’t need me to pray, but He has shown me that my desire to
grow in my prayer life matters to Him. Perhaps the sofa bed frame
was defective so that we would have to go back to the furniture store at just
the time when the chair was on a very special close-out price. I believe the
Lord had every little detail planned so that I could have a place to
pray.
Thank You, Lord! I know You did this for
me. I look so forward to growing in my prayer life. Thank
You for answering prayer even though my prayer life has been so
disorganized. I know You are a God of order, so please help me to be
better about that. I love You, Lord; thank You for loving me.
I am
sharing this because I believe that it glorifies our God, and in the hope that
it might be a blessing and encouraging to you.
Have a wonderful day!
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