For the next 20 days I'm going to send out little helps about prayer. Some of us need to get started praying, some need guidance in prayer, others need a good word to endure in prayer. I will share with you things about prayer that I have grazed from reading "Prayer" by Richard J. Foster. He, nor I, would be so presumptuous to claim to be an authority on prayer; but we can all use a little help.
One major block from prayer is this idea that everything has to be just right. We have to be in the right mood, our life has to be at a certain pinnacle, the room has to be properly lit,etc. When in fact, all we need to do is just pray. Simply pray. Talk to and listen to God. Make your requests known to the Lord, like a child talking to a parent. Don't try to sort things out, let God do that. Just pray simple prayer. All through the Psalms one can read as the Psalmist complains to God, then is encouraged by God in the same sitting.
We'll get into some deeper stuff as we go along here, but for now; don't worry about getting everything just right...just pray.
