PRAYER
A journey in prayer is a journey of discovery. Every day you discover more people to pray for, new ways to pray and renewal in your spiritual life. |
| When I sit down in front of my computer at work, I dedicate the workday to the Lord and ask Him to help me through difficult situations. A small inconspicuous pencil cross at the top of my computer screen's frame, also helps: When I think negative about someone, the Holy Spirit reminds me and I then look up at that little cross and say "No, no!" to myself and have so been able to change MY attitude so much that one person who was negative to me at work, is now friendly and smiles when she says "Hi!". | Can you write down a one-sentence definition of prayer? | |
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This morning I was saying a quick selfish little "Please help me through this day..." when I was reminded that a good friend also had a bad day at work the previous day. ...and the light went on: I can ask for someone else's day also to be a good one. Here my thought is that I would rather keep these prayers very person specific and not throw it wide open as in "Please help everyone at work..." It will help me to become more sensitive to individuals that need prayer support. | |
A friend called one evening after having installed new hardware on his PC - when things did not work, he changed settings and now there was just more confusion and still no working PC. I did not know how to help other than to tell him to speak to the help desk of the service provider and ask them to help. But things did sound very confused and I usually have to call in the help of other brains to help with my PC - so I had little hope... The next evening he called again. This time it was to tell me that he followed my advice the previous evening AFTER PRAYING ABOUT IT. He called the service provider who could not help, but he did ask about one setting on the machine, and after making that correction, his machine was working! Think about the circumstance: I don't usually think of computers as things that there is a lot of concern about in heaven. Certainly not the major topic of everyday prayer. I did not have any hope of my friend getting his machine to work without major outside help. He needed that machine as a worktool and not a toy - he is wheelchair-bound and telecommutes from home. The message I got from the Holy Spirit about this: there is nothing wrong about praying for technology and we should not forget this! |
Another pointer also indirectly had to do with technology: To build this website, I considered searching for other websites about prayer, but I was reluctant. I knew there would be many such sites, each tooting his own horn with his own agenda and I would not know the good from the bad. Instead of God showing me the answers to these concerns of mine, He gave me, as usual a far better answer: the first site on my list was for the Presidential Prayer Team - a group that simply asks you to pray for whoever is President of the US at the time. So immediately I had another person to pray for and a cause to promote and something to put on this prayer web page. It allso served to reinforce my belief that it is better to pray for a specific person than to throw out a blanket '...please be with all our leaders in government...' |
