Teach Us To P.R.A.Y.! Talk # 1 ..PAUSE

Teach Us To P.R.A.Y.! Talk # 1

PAUSE &

OPENING ILLUSTRATION

Be Still

The best way to start praying, is actually to stop praying. To pause. To be still.

What do we mean by that?

Life for many of us is lived at white heat pace .. something is constantly going on. Work is frenetic. There is so much that fills this 24 hr period.

For some it’s an early start .. off to work .. flat out all day .. hopefully squeeze in lunch .. then battle traffic .. get home which could be heaven or it could be hell .. there’s the evening routine to negotiate and flop into the chair and sleep comes easily .. should go to bed and before long the alarm will rudely shatter the silence .. time to repeat the process

So when do you PAUSE to pray?

Add a young family to the mix and there is constant activity from the time they open those baby blue eyes till the time the Superhero PJ’s go on and they finally give in and submit to sleep charging up to repeat the whole process again .. in 6 .. 8.. 9 hrs time. There has been the meal prep .. the cooking .. the washing .. the dressing .. the shopping .. supervising play .. refereeing the fights .. sorting out the earth shattering problems of the world .. “Mum .. all the goldfish have died or Where’s the controller for the Play Station?!” and if both parents are working, there’s a whole new list of things to shoe-horn in

So when do you PAUSE to pray?

For others .. there’s no kids .. no work .. no shedule .. rise when you like .. liesurely breakfast .. casual deciding on the days wardrobe while you consider what you will do today

So when do you PAUSE to pray?

To put down your prayer list and surrender your own personal agenda. To stop talking at God long enough to focus on the wonder of who He actually is that we speak to.. To ‘be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him’.