People agree prayer is important, but usually, they don’t know why it is important and what it can do.

Posts on Facebook can be very powerful in raising responses in us. Yeah, I just got bit by this phenomenon myself. 😂. This article is based on a post I wrote there because it really got people talking.

What I waxed passionate about is important to all those who are stuck in the mud in their prayer life. You know, that stuck feeling where you know you should pray but can’t get yourself to do it?

Yeah, that mud. 😉 UGH! Have I known that sty of mud myself! Well, this is the way to start getting out of it from personal experience.

People agree prayer is important, but usually, they don’t know why it is important and what it can do.

Instead many times it’s scrapped as important but boring, not functioning the way we want it to, taking time that one would rather use elsewhere that seems more important and urgent, embarrassing because it’s like talking to a wall and feeling like a fool. Oh! This one I hear soooo often…this gets the WORST excuse award, “I’m not good at praying so no thank you”.

When did prayer become a competition?!

When was it about what YOU think and what others think? What happened to praying like David danced, not caring what others thought of it? Man! If you could only see in The Spirit what prayer does!

But, what I hear soooo many times, and I am NOT kidding you, is, “Well, I never see anything happen with my prayers so I am not convinced it’s worth it.”

Truly I have heard people tell me these things! What happened to knowing Jesus prayed privately and publicly and even taught how to pray? So you think He did it ‘just for kicks’? Or somehow you think, ‘prayer only works for Jesus and you are not Jesus’. Oh! I got THAT excuse last night. I totally am not kidding! I at least give points to all the people who have literally told me these things because they are being honest with what is stopping them.

But, Oooohhh the games we play to figure out how to make it ok for ourselves to not do things we really don’t want to do but know we should!

It’s time to get honest with yourself.

Be honest about why you don’t pray and delineate all the mental and emotional reasons you squirm at the idea of taking your precious precious time to pray. I am NOT wanting you to feel guilty! That’s not the point at all. The point is that you CAN NOT change the prison of feeling like you are supposed to do something but you really don’t want to, until you SLOW DOWN and get clear and honest with yourself. This applies to ANYTHING you feel stuck in! When you stop being scared and distracting yourself from the truths that live INSIDE of you and get real, then and only then do you have the right direction towards change.

The next step is to be TOTALLY honest with God as you just got done being totally honest with yourself. Come on people! He already knows what you have been hiding! He is not shocked or disgusted! He is happy you are finally getting real with yourself and with Him! Then ask Him, even if you can mean it like only one percent, to help heal your eyes and be able to see as God sees about prayer. He wants you to see! He wants you to want to see! This is praying according to His will and lining up your will with His. I DARE you to pray this for even ten days in a row!

And get back to me after and tell me what you got after those ten days. I’m seriously curious. Oh, we gotta start getting real so that we can grow spiritually! I so love all of you with such passion! We can do this people! God would never tell us to do something and then not give us whatever strength of His we need to do it! But you have to want to do it too! Oh, man! The love I have for you!❤️

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If you are really hungry and want more to munch on right now to become more Owned By Love, this video called “3 Tips When You’re Stuck in Prayer” might satisfy your spiritual taste buds. BON APPETIT!