If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ... _x000D_ It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of prayer and the distractions that can prevent it.
Corrie Ten Boom highlights the struggle many people face in prioritizing prayer amidst a busy life. She suggests that if one is too preoccupied to pray, it may be worth seeking forgiveness for neglecting this essential spiritual practice, possibly influenced by external forces like Satan who distract us with excessive work.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a church service to encourage prayer in busy lives.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.
My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember God’s kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.
Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.
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