Flex your spiritual muscles through Prayer!!

Prayer is essential if you really want to be close to God. If you desire to have that deep, abiding relationship, you must pray, if you want to see God work in your life you must pray.

Thursday is the 57th annual National Day of Prayer. I had no idea that this has been an annual event for 57 years now. The chairman for the National Day of Prayer is Shirley Dobson, wife of James Dobson. This year's speaker is Ravi Zachirias (one of my husband's favoites!!). So why do I tell you this? Well this Thursday, May 1st we will meet in front of the Middle School flag pole for prayer; prayer for our nation and the many obstacles we face, prayer for our military and their family, prayer for each other. This is a very important day for our nation, but let this cultivate within us an attitude of prayer not just a moment of prayer. May our hearts be so moved to action by an ongoing relationship with Father God that we are never the same.

You see this attitude of prayer is what I believe Paul was saying when he told us to "pray without ceasing". He wasn't meaning to just be in your prayer closet all day every day and never venture any further, but I believe that he was saying stay in an attitude of prayer and worship to God. Be ready for any opportunity that arises to share the Good News with others; be ready to offer hope to the hopeless and peace to the troubled; be ready to stretch out your hand and heart to another; be ready to lift the broken by a kind word or deed. But if you and I are going to be this kind of ready, we must be people of prayer.

So let me just encourage you to pray today. Find a quiet place to get alone with God and pour your heart out to Him, and then take time to sit in His presence and listen for guidance and help. He loves you so much!!

Have a terrific week!!

In Christ Alone,

Dawn