Prayer and Motherhood

We devalue prayer a bit like we devalue motherhood. We don’t see prayer as an accomplishment in itself. In the same way that being a Mom isn’t often viewed as a “real job”, prayer isn’t a “real solution”. We look at prayer as the last resort instead of our initial reaction to situations that make us feel out of control. We like to try it on our own because it's tangible, and sometimes we can control the situation. We resort to prayer only when there isn't something tangible we think we can do. I often hear people say, "Well, the only thing left to do now is to pray".

Is it possible that we aren’t living in victory in our daily lives because we haven’t developed the tool that we were given to succeed?

Why don't we take advantage of it?

Why don't we value it?

We simply don't believe it works. I think the reason for this is laziness. So few of us have actually learned to pray, we haven't taken the time for more than arrow prayers in emergency. We don't believe it works because we haven't exercised it, not really.

"When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I'll listen.”

Jeremiah 29:12 Message

Isn’t that what we really want someone to listen? Take a minute with the amazement you should feel that God will listen to you. Why would God listen to me? Don’t misunderstand. This doesn’t mean that God will take my council, it means He will hear me, all of what I have to say. The God of the universe who creates by simply speaking things into being will listen to me when I pray.

The next verse in Jeremiah goes on to tell us that God will be found by us when we look for Him. When we simply glance we don't see Him and we move on. That's what a lot of our prayer lives look like, glances.

If we don’t learn to become women of prayer, how will we impact eternity? That isn't a lofty goal for just some of us. It's why we are still here on earth. We have to chance to affect heaven.

So here’s the hard truth if you wanna argue for your limitations, then you get to keep them.

You don’t have time to pray; You don’t really know how to pray; You don’t know where to start. If you want to keep these excuses, you get to.

If you do nothing, you get to sit right where you are and not grow.

I think there is a connection between devaluing motherhood and devaluing prayer. Both are mostly unseen work. Most people aren't willing to do unseen work.

Are we willing to believe in the unseen, are we willing to look for God until we find Him, or will we stay content with glances?

The best way to grow in prayer is to start...right now. Just stop reading and tell God you want to learn to pray.

Then, the second thing is to make the time. If you are interested in a guide that teaches how to journal prayer, I wrote one.

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