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Praying Regularly Should Not Be Intimidating.

Prayer. Just hearing the word sends negative thoughts to many people's minds. Many Christian's only pray a few times a day: before each meal. That's it. Is that good? Is that what God wants from us? Oftentimes, you will meet someone who prays either when they wake up for the day to come or right before bed. That's good! But... is that all God wants from us? This blog post is not an in-depth study on prayer. It is simply my personal belief about the question I just asked above - is that all God wants from us in our prayer life?

Short answer - no. Scripture shows us time and time again people reaching out to God whether they were rejoicing, depressed, confused, or angry. It didn't matter the context of their situation. They prayed. Just look at every single Psalm written. Look at every time Jesus prayed to the Father. Paul writes, "Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus." (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) What does this mean? Is this passage saying that we should wake up, immediately get down on our faces, and pray all day until bed time? Oh wait. It says "continually". We aren't even allowed to sleep. Just keep praying. No! How silly is that! Of course that is not what he is saying. What Paul is saying here is that we should be talking to God all throughout our day whether something positive, negative, confusing, sad, or irritating happens. When we are folding the laundry, we can have a little conversation with God. When we are driving in the car, we can have a little conversation with God. You get the picture. In my podcast episode that came out this morning about prayer, I described a scenario that, in my opinion, encapsulates perfectly what is meant by saying "pray continually". Let's imagine that you invited a friend over to hang out with you for the day. She comes over, eats breakfast with you, rides to the mall with you, shops for a couple hours, rides back home with you, gets in her car, and leaves. Great. Now, imagine that during this entire hang out session, neither one of you speak a single word to each other... awkward. Maybe, you do speak to each other, but only when she first arrives at your house and when she leaves. Okay, last one. Maybe you speak to each other when she arrives at your house, leaves your house, and when you sat down to eat breakfast only to say, "wow this is good. Thanks for cooking for me." "You're welcome." Again, awkward. For HOURS, nothing is said. You would never do that, right? No! Of course, not. Well, that's exactly what most of us Christian's do when we start our relationship with God. We invite Him into our lives, and we ignore Him the majority of the time. God is present everywhere. He is with us when we lay down for bed, get up in the morning, go to the store, go to work, pick up our kids from practice, leave the country, and everywhere else we could possibly go. Why then are we not acknowledging His existence most of the time. He is the only being who wants to hear everything we think about. He created us. We are His masterpiece. He loves us more than any human could ever imagine loving us. That being said, let's talk to Him. When you accomplish something that you've been working on, let Him be the first to hear about it. When you've had the hardest day of your life, let Him be the first to hear about it. When you go on your first date with someone, tell God first. No matter what is going on, tell Him. He cares. Ask Him all of your questions, tell Him all of your concerns, express all of the gratitude you have, and simply live life with Him. Talk to your Creator. The more you do it, the more you'll want to. The more you'll want to, the less intimidating it will be.


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