Stop. Breathe. Pray.

Sometimes we just have to stop and do what God allowed us to do at the very beginning of life..breathe.

Hustle and bustle. Runnning around here and there. Cell phones. Emails. Text messages. Work. School. Work. Work. Work.

Is there time to just sit and relax? And breathe? Of course it seems like there is not a second to spare. We have to make the time to stop doing and just be.

TIME is a gift from the Lord Jesus Christ. I often take time for granted. For example, I would like to pray for hours at a time, but let me just check my email really quick Lord. In case there are prayer needs. Yeah, ok, hours later (meant for prayer) I am still "checking my email." Interruptions. Time wasted.

Lord, I will take this phone call "really quickly" and then I will get into prayer. Oops, I ended up praying with the person on the phone. "See, Lord, I am doing Kingdom work!" Praying is great. However, when my tank is running on "E", I must make time for Him to fill me up.

Jesus wanted His disciples to stay awake and pray with Him. They fell asleep. I feel like I am "asleep" even when I am awake. I am running, running, running and by the time I get positioned in prayer, sleep finds me quickly. How terrible I feel!

Lord, teach us to BREATHE while we still have breath and to PRAY while we are upon this earth. Teach us to do what you did best while you walked this earth, commune with God. Teach me, Lord, to pray. And to be a human being that you desired me to be. Father, forgive me when I put everything else in front of my time designated for you. I don't want to be found on empty if a crisis hits. I want to be fillled with the power of God found only in prayer.

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