REFLECT: How often do you pray (not counting grace at meals)? How often do you think you should pray? When is a good time for you to pray every day? (Morning? After school? Bedtime?) How long do you plan to pray every day? (Five minutes? Ten minutes? Fifteen? More?) Tell someone else about your commitment to pray. If you need more patience, more compassion, or more self-control, pray prayer will add God's energy to your efforts. If you want to be more loving toward your brother, pray that will add God's help to your good intentions. If you want to stop lying, pray praying will add God's power to your desire. Prayer is a vital weapon in making right choices. He becomes a deep, intimate, personal friend who loves you unconditionally.ģ. The Bible says that when Moses entered the tabernacle, "The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend" (Exodus 33:11, NIV). When you pray, you discover what it means to be intimate with God. When you pray, you "unplug" your mind from the television and CD player and "plug in" to God.Ģ.
The psalmist said, "Look to the Lord and his strength seek his face always" (Psalm 105:4, NIV). You are his child, and he values every minute you spend with him!ġ. In fact, God eagerly waits for you to come to him in prayer. You can be totally confident that God hears you when you pray. God really does understand modern English (even the bizarre language spoken by your brother or sister). Prayer is simply talking to God about your thoughts, feelings, and concerns. Your understanding of prayer may come from your childhood or from listening to grown-ups talk to God in thee's and thou's or six-syllable theological words you never heard of. You'll never make right choices without prayer.
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