“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalms 46:10 NIV
Talking to the Lord as our friend and dialoging with Him is the key to having a regular day infused with prayer. He will speak back to us through our hearts and minds and we will begin to be totally aware of His presence in our lives. God is not distant from us and He longs for our communication with Him and to be the friend who accompanies as throughout our daily life.
Another practical step to infusing prayer into our daily life is removing some of the activity that pulls us away from our relationship with the Lord. We begin by looking at our schedules and seeing how much time we spend doing things, some of which are very good things, but still not relevant in this pursuit of prayer relationship with God. Margins are necessary in our lives to make room for hearing opportunities.
To develop a friendship we must spend time together, talk together, listen to each other, study each other’s character. We can compare this to our dating before marriage. We couldn’t wait to be together and to listen to every detail of each other’s day, to sit together, talk together, walk together and plan together for our future. This is God’s desire for us in relationship with Him. We must get to know Him personally. He is not a faraway being who is distant from His creation, He is a person who has every emotion that we have and loves and grieves for us. He wants to be our Father, our Daddy.
Talking to the Lord as our friend and dialoging with Him is the key to having a regular day infused with prayer. He will speak back to us through our hearts and minds and we will begin to be totally aware of His presence in our lives. God is not distant from us and He longs for our communication with Him and to be the friend who accompanies as throughout our daily life.
Another practical step to infusing prayer into our daily life is removing some of the activity that pulls us away from our relationship with the Lord. We begin by looking at our schedules and seeing how much time we spend doing things, some of which are very good things, but still not relevant in this pursuit of prayer relationship with God. Margins are necessary in our lives to make room for hearing opportunities.
To develop a friendship we must spend time together, talk together, listen to each other, study each other’s character. We can compare this to our dating before marriage. We couldn’t wait to be together and to listen to every detail of each other’s day, to sit together, talk together, walk together and plan together for our future. This is God’s desire for us in relationship with Him. We must get to know Him personally. He is not a faraway being who is distant from His creation, He is a person who has every emotion that we have and loves and grieves for us. He wants to be our Father, our Daddy.
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