Monday; June 15
While most of us believe in the value of prayer, how many of us feel comfortable with our prayer lives? We know we should do it. We believe that we can benefit from it. But, how many of us feel like we are where we’d like to be in communicating with God? Most of us are familiar with ways that we can enhance our prayer lives – finding a quiet place to pray free from distractions … praying on a regular schedule … reading (and emulating) some of the great prayers in Scripture – but there is one more concept I’d like to explore. What if, when we don’t feel that prayerful spirit, we just turn it over to the Holy Spirit. In essence, we tell the Spirit of God, “I don’t know what I want to say or how I want to say it – help me!”. While this might be a bit of a foreign concept to some of us, it is based on a biblical principle. Paul teaches, “In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but ...