11 Good Reasons to Pray Daily

For My Sake

“Saltwater Sweetness” in acrylic by Myra Alibrando

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Am I on the Right Track?​​​​​​​

Almost every day, my waking thoughts are related to my purpose for living, the quality of my life, and recalculating the direction of my life based on choices.

Too often, I have skipped prayer and/or Bible reading. 

I have never regretted taking a good, cleansing shower, but have regretted not taking one sooner. The same for Bible reading and prayer, I have never regretted the time invested but have regretted missing some of those.

Convincing Misdirection

The thinking is seductively misguided, represented by words like: "I don't have time today" or "I'm already behind" or "I have promises to keep". These and more are always suggesting I will accomplish more by skipping my time with God.

I Really Have So Much to Do

Didn't God promise to guide us, teach us, lead us? It isn't that we think we are smarter than God, it is simply we assume a lack of time to accomplish what we have decided needs to be done. 

However, it is like assuming I don't have time to look at my compass before I start walking though the wilderness on a cloudy day because I want to get moving as soon as possible. 

I have never regretted "interrupting" my precious time for God because it is always a reset of values and a reminder of assurance. It calms me. It takes me out of the victim sense of "I have no choice" and puts me into this attitude of "My best will yield good fruit" and "God's favor is always better than God's wrath. 

For your benefit, I will share what I listed for myself that day.

11 Reasons for Me to Pray

1. Time is not my enemy if God is my friend

2. Recalibrate true priorities

3. Reawaken the reality of God watching me, helping me, guiding me, and my life as a gift on loan

4. To enjoy the influx of wisdom from outside myself as I listen & read

5. To be open to rebuke or correction, saving time and consequences

6. To acknowledge, from my core, that everything begins and operates from my heart attitude

7. Unexpected, uncontrollable inspiration may occur in the presence of my heavenly Father

8. When overwhelmed, reminder "If God is pleased with me, it is enough to be a great day."

9. To fill up with gratitude knowing I am loved from heaven and on earth

10. To remember God's will fulfilled instead of my will is not cause for depression but joyful celebration

11. God can choose to do more in one miraculous minute than I can accomplish in 20 years of focused work.

Not Enough Time Be Wise?

Sometimes, because of the time zones, I have to make phone calls to U.S. at my 5 or 6am, and I will do that. Once I get started I don't want to lose my momentum. But I am glad to report, I do stop and I do calm down knowing I am about to indulge in what I anticipate as . . . well, a special flavor of life with me on the receiving end. 

Have you had problems with your computer and tried all kinds of things to fix it and can't and suddenly you realize you should try to reboot your computer and magically, the problem is gone? Sometimes that is how it feels when I reset with God, listening and believing. 

Confirming Scriptures

Here are a few scriptures to encourage you that God also thinks this is a good idea:

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. Colossians 4:2

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Romans 15:4

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