Struggle to pray

Many of us struggle to pray. Most of us do, really, if the truth be known. 

 

But prayer is best expressed as conversation – a two-way conversation - with God.

 

The following true story helps illustrate a basic principle of prayer.

 

A disciple had struggled with prayer for many long years before confessing his need for help to a trusted friend. His friend told him that prayer was really a two-way conversation with God, and that he might find it helpful to set another chair alongside his own and simply imagine he was chatting with the Person in that chair, to speak from his heart and to listen.

 

Encouraged with this, the man tried it, and found that it did help. Over the next few months, however, his health began to fade, but he kept up his practice of praying with the second empty chair alongside.

One afternoon, his family discovered that he had died peacefully in his chair, which had become his favourite place.
“The strange thing,” his daughter said, “was that though he sat in his favourite chair, his head was resting against the other one.”

God invites us to come close in prayer, and to rest against his breast – that we may know his heartbeat of love.

 

Do you know God as a loving friend?

 

 

Why not take time to begin a conversation right now?

 

 

God is only a prayer away...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“God gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”