To Pray without ceasing can seem daunting and perhaps impossible. However the simplicity of communion and conversation with the God who is the awareness of your next breath, the acknowledgement of his spirit within you and the awakening to the true strength that sustains you. Prayer for me has been the wellspring of my life, it is the ongoing connection I feel to my love for God and his love for me.
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To Pray without ceasing can seem daunting and perhaps impossible. However the simplicity of communion and conversation with the God who is the awareness of your next breath, the acknowledgement of his spirit within you and the awakening to the true strength that sustains you. Prayer for me has been the wellspring of my life, it is the ongoing connection I feel to my love for God and his love for me.
I grew up loving to pray out of desire to talk to God because I truly believed he heard me and I really did NEED him to hear me. The opportunity to talk to God was as real as me having a conversation with a friend. Jesus was my true friend. Always there, real, powerful and present. I knew He knew me! I learned early on listening to my grandma pray and watching her bead by bead pray, that prayer was a discipline. I also learned that the prayers we prayed together God answered. Real prayers, real needs, real life. I always saw God was faithful, but it was through the hard that I learned this not the easy. Shallow prayers were never my thing. I was crying out to God for real help. I needed him, I wanted him and I knew he had all the answers I needed. Although I learned from my Catholic roots what prayer was in the petition and processes of a rosemary I learned the power of the simplicity of the Lord’s prayer. “And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This then is how you should pray, Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the glory forever and ever AMEN.” Matthew 6:6 Prayer has had many seasons in my life for unique reasons. When I was at home raising babies and nursing I had many opportunities to pray as I rocked in my chair. For years I would meet with prayer partners for hours of interceding. Today my prayer life looks more like, praying without ceasing. It is the communion of offering minute by minute my surrender to his presence and my petition for his power to sustain; my daily bread. Whatever the relationship you have with prayer, I believe the following pillars of prayer may help you stay directed and focused in the process.
I grew up loving to pray out of desire to talk to God because I truly believed he heard me and I really did NEED him to hear me. The opportunity to talk to God was as real as me having a conversation with a friend. Jesus was my true friend. Always there, real, powerful and present. I knew He knew me! I learned early on listening to my grandma pray and watching her bead by bead pray, that prayer was a discipline. I also learned that the prayers we prayed together God answered. Real prayers, real needs, real life. I always saw God was faithful, but it was through the hard that I learned this not the easy. Shallow prayers were never my thing. I was crying out to God for real help. I needed him, I wanted him and I knew he had all the answers I needed. Although I learned from my Catholic roots what prayer was in the petition and processes of a rosemary I learned the power of the simplicity of the Lord’s prayer. “And when you pray do not keep on babbling like pagans for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This then is how you should pray, Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the glory forever and ever AMEN.” Matthew 6:6 Prayer has had many seasons in my life for unique reasons. When I was at home raising babies and nursing I had many opportunities to pray as I rocked in my chair. For years I would meet with prayer partners for hours of interceding. Today my prayer life looks more like, praying without ceasing. It is the communion of offering minute by minute my surrender to his presence and my petition for his power to sustain; my daily bread. Whatever the relationship you have with prayer, I believe the following pillars of prayer may help you stay directed and focused in the process.