Are you grateful to God? Do you worship him with a clear conscience? Have you given him your whole heart? Is your mind focused on him when you worship? Do you remember others in your prayers? Do you pray for the church as a whole? Do you pray the lost will be found?
We don’t always show our gratefulness to God. We like to think we accomplished something all on our own. Our worship doesn’t always encompass our whole heart and mind. Our minds will sometimes stray. Our hearts may not be fully committed on any given day.
When we say we will pray for someone, we don’t always follow up on it. Though we say we pray for our family, we do not always do that. We often do not include praying for the church when we pray. Praying the lost will be found and be brought to Jesus is rarely prayed for. Yet all of these are people we should be praying for regularly, even if we rotate through them from one day to the next.
Let’s not kid ourselves. We all go through dry times. We all get very busy. We often have too many things on our minds. For these reasons, we need to set aside time, as challenging as that may be, to spend quiet time with God pouring out our prayers. It is when we are willing to dedicate our time to him that we see him move the most. It is when we slowdown that we can commune with God, worshiping him and praying to him. God desires us to spend time with him.
I pray we all choose to slowdown. I pray we worship God with our whole hearts. I pray each one of us prays for the church, the lost, our families, our friends, and our communities. Slowdown. Spend time with God. Worship God with your whole heart. Pray for the church and others.
1 Timothy 1:3 I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.
Marty Pressey 