No, No, Not a Prayer “Habit”!!
I read a set of 6 devotions somebody wrote on making prayer a daily habit. Excuse me?? A habit?? Like coffee, cigarettes, snorting cocaine or chewing your fingernails?? Dear sisters, if we’re in a fullblown relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer should be a way of life and like breathing to us, not like channel-surfing or evening beers. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 tells us to be joyful at all times and pray constantly. Well, amen on that one, because if we pray constantly we’ll definitely be joyful. The writer even went into that thing that always gets my hackles up: scheduling time in your appointment book to pray. EEEEEEEEEK!!! If our Lord God Almighty is #1 in our lives, we won’t have to schedule time to pray. I made the mistake of one time scheduling prayer, and I’ve felt terrible about it ever since. We should never, ever be too busy for our Lord. We should never, ever slack off on praying so much that we have to resort to turning prayer into a “habit.”
