Devoted to Prayer

“Prayer may weigh on your conscience, but there are no reminders, no complaints. Those who are not prayed for aren’t aware they are forgotten. Prayer requests stay on the task list for the day, but they easily get passed over as you address more pressing demands.” from “Pray for the Flock: Ministering God’s Grace Through Intercession (Practical Shepherding Series)” by Brian Croft, Ryan Fullerton

This quote is from the introduction of a new book I’m reading. As I read, I was drawn to think of other things I’ve been studying for small group, for Sunday School, and for our men’s breakfast about the necessity of prayer. In small group, we just looked at Acts 2 and the first church. We saw and talked about the church’s actions – “they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” In Sunday School, working through the Sermon on the Mount, we see how we are to pray, both in attitude and action. And at the last breakfast study we looked at the importance of the “one anothers”, which includes lifting one another up in prayer. This week we started looking at the good Samaritan, and our responsibility to our neighbor, which again leads us to prayer.

If that’s the case, and it is so necessary and important, why is it so hard to do? Why is it, as in the quote, so easily pushed to the bottom of our priorities, only to be moved to tomorrow?

I wish I had the answer. I don’t. There are some wonderful prayer warriors out there, and I wish I were like them. That’s one of the reasons I’m reading the book – looking for help.

How do you do it? What is the secret?

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