I Too want to learn to pray….
Twinklemoose has stirred up a desire in me… a desire to learn to pray. Getting up with my infant daughter has made me realize just how little sleep I really need too, and how I actually have more motivation in the day when I get around 6 or 7 hours of sleep at night. I have been recently wondering where my spiriual connection with Christ has started to flutter off too… and Twinklemoose hits the nail on the head, I have been spending too little time with HIM!
Eccl.5:12 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
I think I will start purposing to pray more often… It is going to take some extra grace from God because without His motivating grace I am too weak to follow through on this one… Please pray for me to get up at five thirty and start to pray and be with the Lord.
Thanks
Meg Logan
June 27th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Do I ever need grace in this area of my Christian walk as well…
“Pray without ceasing.” (1 Thessalonians 5:17)
June 29th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Blessings to you Meg!
It’s amazing how little babies and a lack of sleep can actually aid us in praying more. I can’t count the number of times I’ve awoken early, refused to get out of bed to pray, then had to get up within the next few minutes to tend to the baby, so ended up having time with the Lord. There have also been times when I’ve been unable to pray as long as I wanted because of interruptions with the children, but overall they’ve helped me to get disciplined in this. I so desperately want them to grow up surrounded by a real and vital faith.
July 1st, 2006 at 11:48 am
Meg? Izzat you?
Congratulations!
I’m working on a thought which God hit me with a week or so ago. (It must have been God, because I’m not that profound!)
Is the reason that we have a natural aversion to prayer simply because we are too ashamed to talk to Him and admit our sins, or just too proud to admit them to ourselves?
I’m glad God has placed that fire within you. It’s a great feeling, eh?
July 2nd, 2006 at 8:43 am
wow, people are coming back to read my blog!
Nice to see you Rev Ed… That is a profound inquiry…i will have to turn that one over in my mind too.
I know one reason I dont feel comfortable praying alot is DOUBT…. oh its sad I know. I have all the proof in the world that there is a God and He hears me… I have seen so many prayers answered etc…I can’t deny that He is there, but I think to a certain exxtent I still feel “stupid” or foolish praying to something I cannot see….at least if I am being purposeful about it, or praying out loud alone… When I pray in my own mind it isn’t so strange.
I need to get over it that is for sure, how foolish of ME to question God’s word. “For we know that when we pray He is there and He hears us”
Peace,
Meg
July 3rd, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Wow, if it THE Meg Logan! With a new spiffy look and everything. Congratulations on the birth of your daughter and so good to see you back. Running off to go link to you now!
July 4th, 2006 at 9:39 am
Wow Meg…. You’re back! Hooray! I’d missed you and I was so glad to see your comment at my blog today and then to see that you have a new blog, too! Really, it’s great to see you back and I am looking forward to your new posts… Blessings, Debra
July 5th, 2006 at 11:11 am
Oh thanks ladies and gents! I am happy to be back, now If I could just get over the writers block!
Meg