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The great Christian author and apologist C. S. Lewis famously said, \u201cI pray because I can\u2019t help myself. I pray because I\u2019m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn\u2019t change God. It changes me.\u201d<\/p>\n

I can say \u201cAmen!\u201d to that. I pray for those reasons. And more:<\/p>\n

1) I need God.<\/strong>
\nLike many people, I am most often driven to prayer because I need something. A job. Healing. Money for car repairs. Those sorts of things. But the more I pray, the more apparent my real need becomes: I need God. He is my source, my strength, my healer, my helper.<\/p>\n

2) It clears my head.<\/strong>
\nI can\u2019t possibly count the number of times I have gone to prayer in confusion\u2014my mind and heart all stressed and twisted and panicked\u2014only to experience a wonderful release and peace by the time I finished praying. I know the truth of the verse, \u201cThou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee\u201d (Isaiah 26:3, KJV) because I\u2019ve experienced it.<\/p>\n

Ask the OurPrayer team to pray for you!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

3) It starts my day right.<\/strong>
\nFor many years I was too busy to pray in the morning. My days began with hurry and progressed in the same way. But at some point, morning prayer became not only a habit but also a blessing. It orders my day. It sets the tone. It gets me going in the right frame of mind and the right orientation of heart.<\/p>\n

4) It ends my day right.<\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve written elsewhere on this blog about the blessing Compline (evening prayers) has been to me<\/a>. Suffice it to say here that prayer helps my mind review the day, download and offload all the day\u2019s stress and struggles, downshift my brain\u2019s mechanisms, and prepare for rest. At this point, I think I could more easily go to sleep without locking the doors or brushing my teeth than I could without having prayed.<\/p>\n

5) It reminds me of a few important things.<\/strong>
\nLike who God is. Who I am. What matters most. Where I come from and where I am going.<\/p>\n

6) Things go better when I pray.<\/strong>
\nI know God answers prayer because I see those answers on a daily basis. If for some reason I neglect prayer, I feel like I\u2019m not firing on all cylinders, so to speak. Things go wrong. I go wrong. Perhaps most importantly, disappointments and detours that might shake or shatter me if I haven\u2019t prayed more often turn into blips\u2014or even blessings\u2014when I have prayed.<\/p>\n

7) I get better as I pray.<\/strong>
\nSeriously, I shudder to think of the man I would be if I subtracted all the praying I\u2019ve done over the years. Prayer makes me a better man, because prayer brings God and all He is and means to me into motion in me and through me. I am nowhere near good enough or smart enough to go without prayer. Little by little, day by day, I become a more blessed, more joyful, more capable, more focused and more sensitive person than I was just a few days before.<\/p>\n

I could go on. Seven reasons barely scratch the surface. I could easily list seven more, I think. So maybe I will, in a future post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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