![]() ![]() My God! Precious, the kid’s school fees are yet to be paid. Wow, you haven’t even paid the electricity bills and the house rent is piling up. Oh! How about that file your boss asked you to send. “Precious, you can’t pray, you are tired, you have been running around the block, going grocery shopping, lectures and work and you are stressed. I like to analyze our discussion with the flesh thus: ![]() Flesh will stop at nothing to keep you from praying, just anything but prayers. Your flesh just wants to get onto the next thing, it wants to do anything but pray because it understands that the more you pray, surrender and cave in the presence of God, you are bound to kill it completely and send its desires far away. The errands, office and house chores can actually wait for a healthy communion with God, your problem is prioritization and time management That is the way your flesh and mind works when you have not broken through in prayer. “Well, I am going to pray a while later when am done sorting out my problems and handling issues on my desk”ĭon’t get me wrong, I don’t mean you shouldn’t handle your issues and clear your desk, but that desk of worry can be cleared later by the lord if you allow him to do so. Oh! that food on the stove-top and all of a sudden the Christian packs up his load and shifts his prayer journal one side and concludes on this note I have heard and done so many times. We can barely last an hour in prayer before thoughts of what to do start to creep in: the papers and documents to type, that email you need to send out. If he were a man I will sure pity him over the demands he needs to process from different walks of life , oh! He even knows your demands and needs even before you ask him. I understand that God is omnipresent and all-knowing. We just waltz into the gates and start to shout at him from afar Most of us never get past the gates, a host of us, in fact, end the journey of communion at the gate, we barely enter right through the court. “I will enter his gates with thanksgiving win my heart, I will enter his court with praise” The pressing issue is that often times or not, we barely commune, it almost looks as though we are hauling and throwing our demands at him. We struggle to connect with God, to relate with him, to speak with and to him and convey our feelings on how much we need him. A handful of us out there in the world struggle with it every morning I sure hope I don’t cause you to skip this article onto the next but I just need you to understand that you are not the only struggling with your prayer. Let me break this ice, please Dear, Prayer Is Very Stressful And Tiring. This very statement is one of the many struggling thoughts of several Christians all over the world. You know what? I actually admired the boldness of this brother. ![]() Well, of course now you understand why he earned provoking and funny stares, it almost seemed as though everyone wanted to lay hands on a brother and deliver him from every spirit about to snatch him away from the hands of the lord. This friend said “man, I really hate praying” It is a common statement I have heard as a complaint or passing tired remark from some Christians overtime but as he said it that morning, it got me thinking and reviewing a lot of things in my head All of a sudden, one of us made a striking statement that got the attention and stares of everyone present. A bunch of us my friends and I were discussing on a certain day outside the house while doing a little laundry. ![]()
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