Prayer

By: Monique Smith

I don't know if anyone else feels like me any time....but I find myself more often than not, being distracting throughly during prayer. For example: I may say a prayer and then immediately start thinking about what I need to do tomorrow or what if this or thinking about him or her and then my prayers turn into thoughts and more talk than dialogue with Daddy.

And this my friends, frustrates me. I know God wants to hear from us at anytime, anyway, and he loves when we talk to Him. But c'mon. He want's to talk back to us sometimes and not allow the conversation to only be one sided.

So yesterday after work, I was determined to fix that! I was sitting in my bed, it was about 5p.m. and I had my Bible out, singing worship songs in my head, and then I begin to clear my mind. It was difficult at first, but I finally got it clear and sighed a sigh of relief and was ready to talk to the Father. I started by asking for forgiveness for the countless things I did wrong during the day. Then that lead into a conversation with the Father....until.....about 45 minutes later, I found myself waking up from a NAP!!! -_-!!! What!!! Monique! You fell asleep!! SMH.

As you can see that was a fail. For many reason, next time, I will not be trying that on my bed! LOL. But the purpose of this is to let you know about the retry that happened today at work. Thankfully I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and I was asked to proctor a test from 8:15-9:45a.m. I agreed, not really wanting to. But my God, I'm so glad I did. During the time of proctoring, I had SO much free time to really talk to Daddy. I cleared my head and ask God for clear guidance for what I should do during this summer and He BLEW ME AWAY!! I'm not able to share details right now, but He gave me so many ideas about how to build up my community and make a change! I was so excited!!

The point of this all is to encourage you all to try try try again at cleaning your mind and having a conversation with Daddy, not a monologue! He really will speak to you and guide you! Its such a beautiful thing!!

ALSO, yesterday, God directed me to a book in the Bible that will be super important in the fulfillment of the plans he gave me for the Summer!

This is a great thing!

Be blessed y'all!!