If you are anything like me sometimes just the thought of taking time to pray for an extended time can stress me out. It adds to the long list of other pressures in our lives that we feel like we have to accomplish before flopping in to bed at night. I want to help relieve some of that pressure. We do need to make it a priority, but prayer can and should be as natural as breathing to us. With God in the center of our life, all we do revolves around Him. He doesn’t want to add burdens to our world, God wants to lift heavy burdens! If we feel a “prayer burden” it is probably the Holy Spirit prompting and directing us to pray specifically for a certain person or situation. And who of us, wouldn’t take time to pray if we knew it could change or even spare someone’s life, or change circumstances.
If we look at prayer from a house perspective, God calls us the temple of the Holy Spirit, so we are a house, and God’s Word tells us in Is 56:7, that His house shall be called a house of prayer. That means your house, your temple, your life, is a house of prayer. Prayer fits ever room in your house….work life, family life, church life, and relationships of every kind. And plus that, we live in our house and as believers, God lives here too! He is with us 24/7! It makes it easier to take the pressure off, and just make prayer a lifestyle, just like living and breathing. It can come naturally in your house. Be encouraged to make your temple/ your body/ your life/ a place of prayer!
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