Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12
Prayer. Being faithful in prayer. It's such a critical element of our relationship with God and is often the first to be given up when we start to fall away from Him. As St Teresa of Avila wrote, "So, then, going on from pastime to pastime, from vanity to vanity, from one occasion of sin to another, I began to expose myself exceedingly to the very greatest dangers: my soul was so distracted by many vanities that I was ashamed to draw near unto God in an act of such special friendship as that of prayer."
Prayer is a special time with God and one Satan would like to stop. Let's stay "faithful in prayer", go to the infinite One and pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with Him.
The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God. Let's speak the Word over our land.
