About Discipline and Desire in Prayer you need to know.

Here is some very good information from UPCI that all Prayer People and those who care about others will like to know. It talks about Prayer in a Unique Way and brings out the Real Essense or Purpose.

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“When Discipline Meets Desire.”

Discipline alone does not bring joy in prayer. If prayer is done without desire, it has simply
become a habit or a motion we go through, similar to driving a car to a destination without
remembering the joy of the journey. If you don’t really enjoy prayer, it is unlikely you will be
effective at it.

I Thessalonians 5:17, instructs us to “Pray without ceasing.” How can continuous prayer be
possible when, at times, we struggle so badly with it?

Prayer without ceasing doesn’t mean that we continuously kneel before God; rather, it means
that we are to have spiritual lives, not spiritual moments. We are to live our lives in a mental
and spiritual state of prayer all throughout our day’s experiences, rather than separate prayer
into time slots or weekly prayer meetings. God should not just be in the sacred parts of our
lives, but also in the secular, mundane, and ordinary. He is everywhere, at all times. But He is
only in the moments of our lives that we bring Him into.

Could it be that our mundane activities become holy when we become aware of God’s desire to
be found in them? You see, prayer is not just DOing, it is BEing with Him. When you integrate
prayer into your everyday life, everything automatically changes because God is now in the
picture and, without a doubt, affects us.

Welcome God into every part of your day and see how things suddenly take on a whole different
meaning.

Colleen Clabau
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(Information from: UPCI The Praying Life Newsletter – World Network of Prayer – floshaw@wnop-upci.ccsend.com)