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Prayer constant and continual



"Just because I say the words Amen, doesn't mean this conversation needs to end" (Steven Curtis chapman) Prayer is one of the ways we acknowledge the presents of our God who has said he will never leave us or forsake us. Are we Christians blinded by the traditions of how the "church" prays? I'm not saying that the traditions of the church are bad, unless those traditions of corse trump the point, (God) and the tradition of corporate prayer is vital, we should continue to pray together as a church always.

I guess my point is that, I grew up understanding that, we pray in church, and I should pray before I eat and before I go to bed or before I read His scripture. The paster prays before he preaches, and before we go after. All of these are really good, it's just that it would be easy for me, or for anyone, to just leave it at that, I fear that many of us Christians do just that. So than prayer is left with being merely a ritualistic act and only just, nothing more. How this must brake His heart!

He created us in his image and if we need others and relationships so very much, how much more does He long that we would value a relationship with Him? No He does not need us but he wants us, wants us as His. That may be more powerful than need, and something I'm sure I do not understand.

A good any kind of relationship between two people is about both people showing up and being present in each others lives. If only one person shows up and is present, it will be a lousy relationship. Our God is always present!! He wants a relationship with us!! Prayer constant and continual is one of the ways in which we make ourselves present with our ever present relational God.

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