03.10.10
Wilderness Praying: Part 2
I just published this weeks blog less than a minute ago when I realized I didn’t continue the Wilderness Praying blog from last week. I figured I’d better not leave you all hanging. I finished last week’s blog like this…”By the way, if you are thinking you don’t have time to pray in the wilderness hold that thought until next week’s blog.” I closed the blog in that way because the number one reason people give me for not having wilderness praying as part of their lives is because they don’t have time. However, as you probably have guessed, that is usually not the case. Yes, we are very busy. Yes, we already have to many irons in the fire, but what I have come to realize is that we are not any more busy than Jesus Christ was. Let me encourage you to grab a Bible and look at chapters 4 and 5 of Luke. Take a piece of paper and write down all the things our Savior was involved in. List all the things that He accomplished in those two chapters. Then ask yourself, am I really any busier than Jesus? Most of us would have to answer, “no.” Let me draw your attention back to Luke 5:16 again. In the midst of Jesus’ very busy life what did He make time to do?
We all need to learn to pray in the wilderness. We don’t have to do do this once a week or even once a month, but we do need to make it part of our lives. Let me encourage you to make a wilderness prayer date sometime in the next month. Then commit to doing it once a quarter in 2010. Yes, we are busy, but that is when being with our Father in focused prayer the most.
Have a great day,
P. Mark
