Me:  Your friends look like rough company.

Prodigal:  Yeah, he steal his mama’s egg money.

Me:  Maybe you should pray for him then.

Prodigal:  That is what I am planning on doing.

 

This is from the book A Praying Life by Paul Miller

 

Oddly enough, many people struggle to learn how to pray because they are focusing on praying, not on God.  Making prayer the center is like making conversation the center of a family mealtime.  In prayer, focusing on the conversation is like trying to drive while looking at the windshield instead of through it.  It freezes us, making us unsure of where to go.

 

Some of my best prayers times are just a simple conversation as if I am talking to someone who loves me and is interested in me.  Of course God is someone who loves me and is interested in me.

 

2 Corinthians 3:4

And such trust have we through Christ toward God.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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