‘Prayer is an effort of the will. After we have
entered our secret place and shut the door, the most difficult thing to do is
to pray. We cannot seem to get our minds into good working order, and the first
thing we have to fight is wandering thoughts. The great battle in private
prayer is overcoming this problem of our idle and wandering thinking. We have
to learn to discipline our minds and concentrate on willful, deliberate prayer.’
CHAMBERS
Two of the most important disciplines of our faith
… reading the Bible and praying … Our vital link to our Father who is in
heaven. On the one hand He speaks to us … and on the other we speak to
Him. Chambers is saying when we talk to
God, the conversation must be focused. Have you ever been talking to more than one
person at a time? It is like that when
our thoughts wander during prayer … the things that come to our mind are not
things that we want to talk to God about, but about things that we must tend
to. Matthew 22 says that we are to love God with every fiber of our being … but
what does it say about our devotion when we cannot have an uninterrupted
conversation with Him?
We are teaching a Bible study and we ask that
everyone turn their cell phones off during the study. One person puts their phone on vibrate and then
responds to the phone during the study. If I were to ask what the emergency was .. I
am certain I would be told there was no emergency … Have you ever seen someone
reading a book in the middle of a crowd of people with noise all around them?
How do they do that? They focus. And so it is with us. If we say we can’t help but be distracted, we
are really saying we choose to be distracted … Do you really think that it is
impossible to do what God asks you to do when He has given you His Spirit to
help you?
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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