Prayer

[banzai]

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in his Word, he intended to be conspicuous in our lives. If he has said much about prayer, it is because he knows we have much need of it. . . . A prayerless soul is a Christless soul.

-Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening (2 January, Morning)My prayer habits are feeble and atrophied.

Comments

[marm]

Did you see these are all online? You have to love techology.

[banzai]

I'm using a different online source (linked above) for the same stuff. Probably 80-90% of my devotional reading is done online, because I'm such a huge geek.

[jmcphers]

I'm reading Morning and Evening this year-I also read that passage this morning, and it resulted in a similar conviction.

[banzai]

It always feels a bit strange to be encouraged and convicted all at once, but I think true conviction from the Holy Spirit often works that way.

prayer

[anonymous]

I think we shouldn't muster focus or discipline in our prayers, but instead pray sincerely, out of need and desire.

When my prayer life is lacking I think it just means that I don't feel I need God.

-steph

Re: prayer

[banzai]

The second point (which I totally agree with) is the very reason I need discipline. But at this point in my life, the discipline I'm choosing is the discipline of showing up in God's presence. Sometimes my scatteredness or the silences are awkward, but I need to be putting myself in His path anyway. Sometimes it could even be more listening for His voice than speaking to Him (an idea that's honestly very foreign to most of us today, but was probably essential to Christ's time in prayer to His Father), or just praising Him (ditto