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Prayer life, I’ll be the first to admit mine isn’t what it should be. Sometimes it’s easy to get so caught up in life that all we do is spend time in the word….. but are we praying on it, meditating, listening for God’s call. I was talking to a friend recently and her disgust with our prayer lives was conveyed to me in a awesome analogy that I’ll share….we have some close friends who we can talk to everyday and still never run out of things to say, and then one day you’ll be in the grocery store and see a friend you havn’t seen in years and they’ll ask what’s new with you, or what’s going on in your life, and you won’t have anything to say…that experience has happened to me countless times. The thing is, the person who we never run out of things to say to should be God. God wants everything, all of us, every tiny incident that we have everyday!! Not profound words, or eloquently written prayers…He wants our day to day lives.

Prayer is often referred to in a last resort kind of way…we say things like ‘well I guess all we can do it pray about it.’ why wouldn’t we want to pray about it? why isn’t that our first resort? That’s our private line straight to God, and it’s NEVER busy or unanswered.

I’ve been convicted of prayer recently and I am composing a list of things that I want to make conscious effort to pray for daily. Of course my relationship with God, my family, and friends but on a broader spectrum the students of our ministry at NRC, the students of the upcoming generation, that they would have a heart for God. the leaders of NRC and our nation, that God can be real in their lives, and move within them to make productive decisions. The list is a work in progress….but it will be a challenge.