Praying

This morning as I am sitting here at work, I was thinking about how the Bible talks about praying without ceasing. How does that look? If we think of praying as bowing our head and saying Dear Lord every time, well how could we get anything else accomplished throughout the day. I think prayer is a connection between us and God.

Prayer can be both formal and informal, it is when a thought comes into my mind and I say Lord, I love you and I lift my prayers to you. If a struggle comes in, it is acknowledging the struggle, but turning it over to God. I have heard it said before maybe one shouldn't say Amen until you go to bed, because during the day you are praying continuously. It is turning every thought captive to God, it is allowing Him to work not just in our lives, but in our thoughts and turning every thought over to Him.

My mind can run a million miles in a minute, all the worries, fears, struggles can come parading in and the more I give into them, the more they control my days, but the more I turn them over to God and say Lord, this is Your problem and I start admitting my struggles to Him, the more it seems He helps me. It is just like when we are willing to admit our struggles to our spouse, our significant other, because then it is no longer about "I", but about the Lord. It is turning them all over, even when we like the thoughts, because Lord it is not my way, but Yours, not my will, but Your will.

In and of myself I will fail, but when I allow God, He says all things are possible. The things I say I can't stop thinking about, well guess what that statement alone is an "I" statement and I am not allowing God. Allow God, bring every thought captive to Him and watch what happens. He will bring peace to the trouble waters of my mind and He does.