How’s your prayer life doing? Is it something you look forward to, or is it always an arduous endeavor? What do you do when you know you should pray, but you don’t “feel” like it? Well, join the crowd! Even the disciples struggled with prayer and asked Jesus to, “Teach us to pray.” (Luke 11:1) So let’s look at prayer from a different angle. Charles Hodge calls prayer the converse of the soul with God…taking our feelings & emotions out of the equation of communing with our heavenly Father and placing it at a far higher realm. So not “feeling” like praying has no merit whatsoever. Neither is the sweet phrase we use so often addressing someone who’s going through a tough time…”I’ll pray for you.” but not taking the time to actually do it. What a terrible waste of an opportunity to build not only your faith, but theirs as your prayers are made known to God. (Philippians 4:6) So from now on, when you don’t “feel” like praying…pray twice as much, twice as hard, and with twice the fervor…and see what happens.
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