Prayer

A few years ago when I graduated high school, a friend and mentor of mine gave me two gifts: a UL t-shirt, and a book called My Utmost for His Highest. It’s a fancy leather-bound, gold-paged edition. I never picked it up and read it. A couple of years later, I worked with a mission team in Alaska, and was given a copy of this same book by the team leader. Again, I never picked it up and read it.

Over the past few months, excerpts from this book have presented themselves to me several times, and for the first time, I picked up the book last night and began to seriously read it. The devotion for June 16th was about Prayer. I carefully read through it, and it opened my eyes to a lot of things.

Here’s the part that jumped out at me:

“Prayer is not only asking, but is an attitude of the mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural.”

How many times do we as Christians attempt to “pray” without having an attitude of prayer? Stop yourself and seriously think about this: When you pray, are you really in the mindset necessary to come before God and ask Him a question naturally?

Remember: it’s “an attitude of the mind”, not just coming before God and making your request. Attitude matters.