While God does not prescribe a specific time or location for prayer, we would be wise to set aside specific times to pray and to make use of appropriate places for prayer. But if a certain location is encouraging us to fall asleep, we should perhaps find a new location. Scripture does not restrict prayer only to within a church building.
If you need to confess your sin or pray for a loved one going through a trial and you don’t want to be interrupted or distracted, find a place away from interruptions and distractions. If you’re about to walk into a business meeting or into a room with an unrepentant and ornery toddler, pray in your head or under your breath for wisdom or patience. I believe the answer to where we should pray is liberatingly simple: we should pray where we need to pray. I’ve also spent many mornings falling back to sleep. Like communication in a healthy marriage, by God’s grace, a healthy prayer life develops over time.Īnother question is where we should pray. A getting-things-done approach to prayer can lead to neglecting the Lord throughout the day. I can fall into the trap of checking God off and forgetting Him. At the same time, I also learned that when I emphasize a set time to pray, I have the tendency to begin treating it like just another item on my to-do list. To not prioritize prayer is to prioritize something else. It didn’t take me long as a Christian to learn that if I did not set aside a daily time to pray, the busyness of life would all too easily get in the way. 5:17) and also records Christians praying at set times and not accidentally stumbling into it. We see this tension in Scripture when it charges us both to “pray without ceasing” in a very organic manner (1 Thess. At the same time, scheduling purposeful moments to have deeper, uninterrupted conversation, perhaps while the children are in bed or while we’re out to dinner, is extremely healthy. If I only spoke to my wife during scheduled periods of time either at the beginning or end of the day-or worse still, only on Sundays-there could be a problem. When should we pray? Like conversation within a healthy marriage, prayer is ideally frequent and organic. That is why it is helpful to remember that prayer is, as John Calvin often referred to it, “conversation with God.” As relational beings made in the image of God, we all recognize this vital aspect of intimate relationships.
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