I’ve been doing a series on Wednesday nights on prayer, and I just thought I’d take a few of my favorite thoughts from the last three weeks, and pass them on in case you’ve been unable to attend for some reason.  Anyway, here they are:

We all want to have a deeper, more meaningful relationship with our Heavenly Father through prayer.  And yet we all struggle with actually setting aside time to pray.  

None of us struggle with the fact of whether we should pray or not.  It’s a no-brainer.  But all of us struggle with actually praying. 

Prayer is not really difficult.  And yet we find it hard to do.   Prayer is not at all complicated.  And yet we can’t seem to figure it out.   Prayer is certainly not boring.  And yet we don’t want to do it.

Most of the time when we say we’re praying, we’re merely going through the motions. We bow our heads, close our eyes, open our mouths, and say the same things we always say. 

When we go through the motions when it comes to prayer, the prayers we prayer aren’t bad prayers.  It’s just that we don’t generally mean them when we say them.    In other words, our prayers can be theologically sound, yet absolutely worthless. 

The main reason we don’t just mindlessly repeat words toward Heaven, the main reason we don’t just go through the motions, is because we’re actually talking to God Himself. 

When we pray, before we do anything else, we need to take some time to just acknowledge who it is we’re speaking to, and then move on to whatever else we need to talk to Him about.     

Prayer makes a big difference, and the biggest difference is the one that it makes in me.  

Anyway, I’ve learned more during my preparation for this series time than I ever imagined I would and I just thought I’d pass on a few of the thoughts that have stuck with me.