Today's promise: Our prayers bring us
into God's presence
What is the best time
to pray?
We can be confident
that he will listen to us whenever we ask him for anything in line with his
will. And if we know he is listening when we make our requests, we can be sure
that he will give us what we ask for.
1 John 5:14-15
I love the Lord because he hears and answers my prayers. Because he bends down and listens, I will pray as long as I have breath!
Psalm
116:1-2
Seize any time
And talking of
sleepiness, I entirely agree with you that no one in his senses, if he has any
power of ordering his own day, would reserve his chief prayers for bedtime —
obviously the worst possible hour for any action which needs concentration. The
trouble is that thousands of unfortunate people can hardly find any other. Even
for us, who are the lucky ones, it is not always easy. My own plan, when hard-pressed,
is to seize any time and place, however unsuitable, in preference to the last
waking moment. On a day of travelling — with, perhaps, some ghastly meeting at
the end of it — I'd rather pray sitting in a crowded train than put it off till
midnight when one reaches a hotel bedroom with aching head and dry throat and
one's mind partly in a stupor and partly in a whirl. On other, and slightly
less crowded, days a bench in a park or a back street where one can pace up and
down will do.
C. S. Lewis in Letters to Malcolm
Quoted in The Quotable Lewis edited by Wayne
Martindale and Jerry Root (Tyndale House) p 493)
Content is derived
from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
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