It’s easy to get into a routine but is just as easy to get out of a routine. We have our regular schedule of work, school, errands to run, meetings to keep ….get the picture? We even find ourselves in our car driving for miles and do not remember exactly how we made our way through construction zones, traffic lights or dozens of other obstacles. It’s a routine that we don’t even have to think about but yet we do this day in and day out.
How is your prayer life? Are you diligence about your private time with God and spending time with God in quiet time praying and talking to God? Do you do it routinely? Do you go through your prayers and find yourself not remembering how you started your prayers, how you got through some of the thoughts but your mind wandered a bit and can’t recall what you just prayed about? Maybe you have prayer-routine and your just in a routine and going through the motions.
Think about the following:
Psalm 63: A psalm of David.
When he was in the Desert of Judah. 1 You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you. On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your right hand upholds me. Those who want to kill me will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth. They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals. But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God will glory in him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.
Do you earnestly seek God and thirst for God? Get out of a prayer routine buy into a routine seeking and thirsting for God.
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