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Isn’t it fun to preach on things that you feel so inadequate about? If I was leading a LIFE Group this week - these are the questions I’d like to ask…
Why does a ‘to-do’ list become so crystal clear in the middle of my prayer time?
What are the major distractors in my prayer life?
Is a prayer life even necessary? How important is it?
How important is it to me REALLY? In other words - how often do I do it?
Who am I praying with?
When I pray, who are the different audiences that I catch myself praying to?
What one thing would I want God to answer for me this week?
What answer would I expect?
Would I obey if He answered and it wasn’t what I wanted to do?
How do I know if an answer is of God or just my ADD mind in action?
What keeps me from prayer?
Who dominates the conversation in my prayer life?
How much time am I listening? How do I listen? What am I listening for?
What is the dominant noise in my life that is making listening difficult?
4 responses so far ↓
1 Wayne // Sep 1, 2005 at 5:46 pm
When I pray, who are the different audiences that I catch myself praying to?
Wow, that’s a good one! How often do we good evangelicals pray in a way to appear to be super spiritual?
I think that if we are fluent in our private prayer life and are comfortable in it, then we would tend to pray less to an audience and more to God when in public situations…that is, our public prayers would be more of an extension of our private prayer life and relationship with Christ — what do ya think?
2 Grant // Sep 1, 2005 at 6:39 pm
I think we do a lot more than just pray to appear super spiritual as well!
But I think you are on to something…it’s really the same thing we’ve been saying for a while now - inside out living - now that I think about it…
good insight, bro.
3 Wayne // Sep 2, 2005 at 4:37 am
Oh yeah…a lot more…like prayers of gossip — gotta love those!
4 Zack // Sep 2, 2005 at 12:39 pm
Wayne that’s pretty deep. The question “How do I know if an answer is of God or jumy my ADD mind in action?”
This is a questions I find a lot of the highschool guys asking. One of things that has always help me differe between the two is the question I ask myself, does it sink up with the Bible and what God says? Now this doesn’t always work easy and sometimes you must spend tim ein extended prayer but this is something that usually helps me.
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