I once went for a walk with someone new to the church. As we strolled through the park, she looked at me and said “So, you are really into Jesus, aren’t you?” What followed was a wonderful discussion about faith, scripture, but most of all, the importance of Jesus. She described being how Jesus seemed aloof to her. What she really wanted to know was how to get to know him.
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The Secret to Enlivened Prayer
The more that I skipped my prayers, or entered them in words alone, the more I felt my connection with God slowly drift. My sense of rootedness in God’s presence became dim and I found myself easily irritated.
Pray Different
Many of us have a list of people we pray for, either mentally or written down. We pray for these people faithfully and diligently, regularly bringing their names to Jesus. But do we pray for these prayers like I prayed for Emmanuel, silently and quickly? Do these people know we pray for them? Is there an invitation we may be missing?
Praying when we cannot find the words
What if we chose to see frustration in prayer as an invitation to journey deeper with Christ? Discouragement in prayer, after all, is rooted in a desire to pray, and a call to pray. In fact, discouragement in prayer testifies to the fact that we understand prayer rightly.
Reverend Kyle Norman 