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Confessions Of A Prayer Slacker

I’ve spent a great deal of my summer study break reading about and working on my prayer life. I know it sounds weird to say that I was “working” on my prayer life but trust me, it needed work.

One of several resources which was very helpful to me was a book entitled Confessions of a Prayer Slacker by my friend Diane Moody. Diane has been a part of Cross Point pretty much from the start and is a regular reader and commentor here on the blog. Man, she did a fantastic job with this book, which releases this week.

She says early on in the book that her goal is to “Help you find the joy of meeting God every single day, one-on-one, heart-to-heart, until you reach a point where you can’t even imagine starting your day without Him.”

I love that and I so desire that for my own prayer life!

So here’s the deal. Let me know on a scale of 1-10 (10 being absolutely amazing) how your prayer life is these days. Tomorrow I’ll choose 5 random winners and send you a copy of Diane’s new book.

A Prayer Breakthrough?

I’ve made prayer confessions HERE and HERE before. It’s tough for me. I recently read my friend Diane’s book Confessions of a Prayer Slacker which was a tremendous help in so many ways.

One of my biggest struggles with prayer is my inability to stay focused. I find my mind running in all kinds of directions no matter how much I try to concentrate. I can’t tell you how guilty I’ve felt about this over the years.

I’m finishing up John Ortbergs latest book The Me I Want to Be and he’s got a great chapter on prayer. He says this,

When I pray, I end up praying about things I think I should be concerned about: missionaries, world peace and global warming. But my mind keeps wandering toward stuff I am genuinely concerned about. The way to let my talking flow into praying is this: I must pray what is in me, not what I wish were in me.

I love that. I might have discovered a prayer breakthrough.

How’s your prayer life?