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Fine-Tuning Your Prayer Life

Article Prayer"...live close to God and pray every day..."

//Lynette Hagin

Many times our prayers are selfish. We talk to God only about what He can do for us. We tell Him our needs as if He is our heavenly Butler. We say, "Give me this," and "Give me that."

Other times we treat the Lord as our heavenly Lifeguard. If we're about to drown, we scream, "Help me, Lord!" and we start praying fervently. We know Who to call when problems come—we dial our spiritual 911! But we should not allow crises to be the steering wheel of our prayer life.

We need to fine-tune our prayer life every day. God might be trying to warn us about something that He doesn't want to happen in our lives. But if we're not in tune to hear His Voice, we'll miss His warning. Once the crisis hits, we will finally give God our attention, but He wants us to look to Him beforehand so that He can spare us from the crisis.

I once heard someone say, "I thank God for this trial that came my way, because it brought me closer to God. And now I pray every day."

When I heard that I thought, You didn't need that trial to bring you closer to God! The only reason you got closer to God was because you had no other alternative but to pray and ask God to take care of it. But that person could have chosen without the crisis to live close to God and pray every day. And if that person had been praying every day, perhaps that crisis would not have occurred at all!