[Monday's Devotional] - Too busy not to pray?

Too busy not to pray?   You may have heard of, or even read, Bill Hybel's book 'Too Busy Not To Pray: Slowing down to be with God'.  In it he says 'prayer is an unnatural activity', we spend our whole lives training ourselves to be self-sufficient and prayer goes against that - it requires us to surrender, to fall to our knees, bow our heads and fix our attention on God.  Over the next five days we will look at five stories of prayer in the Bible and ask what lessons we can learn from them.   In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, "Grant me justice against my adversary." 'For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, "Even though I don't fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually come and attack me!"'  Luke 18:2-5 [NIV]   Do you often think of prayer as something like this: We're the powerless widow and God is the judge and we can only bother him if we're really desperate and eventually he might hear us and do something about it?  Hopefully you'll realise that this interpretation is wrong!  Instead of being the widow, we are loved children of God; God is not a heartless judge, but a loving Father who wants to abundantly bless us.  He is a father who loves to hear from his children in prayer.   Spend some time in conversation with your Heavenly Father today.   Emma Higgins   Twitter Website Copyright © 2016 St. Matthews & St. Oswalds Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a subscriber to the Daily Devotionals Our mailing address is: St. Matthews & St. Oswalds Church 1a New Street Rugby, Warwickshire CV22 7BE United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list Want to be added to our mailing list? - sign up here!