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
It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship.
"My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is "the most important activity," and "if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much."
In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
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