The past couple of weeks I have been trying to be more intentional with prayer. I have started getting together with another friend specifically to pray. To be honest I struggle with prayer. I feel like I talk, or direct a lot of my thoughts towards God through out the day, but my time sitting down to pray for specific things is often lacking.
But the past couple weeks as I have carved out time to pray specifically I have scene God answer some of the specific things that I have been praying for. It is pretty crazy to think that the God who made the universe is willing to take time to listen to me. But then again, each and every day I am trying to focus on Him. So if my prayers are focused on God, or helping other people in their relationship with God, why wouldn’t He answer.
I have been seeing God work as I pray and yet the other day I didn’t take time to sit down and pray specifically. Boy, it is gonna be a struggle, but I want to pray specifically for things, because I want to watch God be lifted higher as He answers my prayers for the things that touch His heart.
Hey I have gotten so much from the book, Celebration of Discipline, by Richard Foster, in helping me with my prayer life recently. The chapter on Meditation and specifically the part on “Sanctifying the Imagination”. Being able to picture myself before His throne or picture even having Christ sitting right beside me. It’s been great for me who is easily distracted during prayer. The chapter on Prayer helped me to to visualize what I am praying for in a particular persons life.