“But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” Matthew 6:6 HCSB
I can not help but think of Daniel.
“When Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house. The windows in its upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.”
Daniel 6:10 HCSB
Yes, He opened window, He prayed openly for all to see, but He was not there for all to see but to talk to God. He made this his habit. He found a place where God would talk to him and him with God. Prayer was not a show but a lifestyle to Daniel.
When will we get serious about prayer? When will we clean out a space and time to pray to God? The Movie “War Room” shows us a wife who befriends an older lady who has turned her closest into her place to pray. The wife then begins to model her own prayer room after her mentor’s. He has to go through the process to clean out her own closet so that she may focus on praying. In the end, she saves her marriage from a divorce. Who of us has made prayer this kind of commitment in our lives? I testify that I have not. Have you?
Jesus took prayer seriously enough to get up while it was still dark and pray to His Father. —Mark 1:35
Let’s all shut off our phones and TV’s over the next week or so and take 10 minutes to pray daily. Pray together with your family or pray individually. It does not matter just pray. Find three people who can use prayer and pray for them. Let us become a new generation of prayer warriors in our new war rooms. Like our grandparents and their parents before them.
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