Prayer – Daily TAGline

Thought:

Are your prayers trying to bring you closer to God, or are you trying to convince God to accept your plan?

Challenge:

Reflect for a minute on your recent prayers. Have you been asking God to act in a specific way? The next time you pray, don’t tell God your plan, just ask for His guidance and quietly wait for directions.

Reference:

In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. The Lord’s Prayer. “This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,

Matthew 6:7-9 (NABRE)