Simply pray without ceasing.
What does that mean?
It can’t mean that we walk around from dawn to dusk with our eyes closed talking to God constantly. Of course, we still have to live.
What I think is that it means that we are never to give up praying. We don’t say ‘nothing is going to happen here, I’ve been praying for 40 years and there has been no change.’ The notion of ceasing prayer means that we have given up on God and that we know better than He does so if He’s not going to come around I’m just going to stop.’
Usually though it’s not that – sometimes, tragically, we just start slipping up for a day or two and then we get our of the practice and it just slowly fades away. We don’t mean to quit praying about a need or that person of for God’s guidance – we just start letting it slip.
I can tell you that it has happened to me more than I like to think about. I have drifted away and then read a passage of scripture or or heard a message or something and got back to praying and then done really well and then let it slip again.
God’s plan is that we pray and pray and pray and pray and pray. Jesus said met ‘ought always to pray and not to faint.’ Here it is put ‘pray without ceasing.’ God expects us to be praying children. He wants us to communicate with Him. Pray is not a secondary thing that we do when we get to it. It is an A1 priority – let’s be about it.
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