I’m just going to be honest with y’all. I have been really disappointed with my prayer life and study time lately. It’s not where I want it to be. I keep praying and asking God to fill me with a burning passion for Him. I keep praying that He will give me a longing for His Word. I feel like I haven’t had real quality time with God in awhile. Yes I’ve been reading my Bible and praying. But I feel like my heart isn’t where it should be. I’ve been being lazy and not getting up as early because I’m just so exhausted and then that makes my time with God shorter. I feel like I’m starving for Jesus. I can’t explain it with words. Or at least it doesn’t seem to make much sense.
But I don’t like where my prayer life has been. And I want to change. I find myself getting so easily distracted when I’m praying. And I’m sick of it. I want to be able to focus on God. To be still before Him and get my mind off all the craziness of life. I want to be filled with longing for Him. I don’t want to keep rushing through my quiet time just so I can check it off the list.
Does anyone have tips that you use during your devotion time? Is there certain things you do to help you stay focused? Please share if you do!
Simply Faith 
March 10, 2017 at 8:43 pm
Your desire to do better shows how much your relationship with God means to you. Keep pressing on, but just remember this: God has you upheld in His strong hands even when you feel inadequate. Secondly, if the devil knows he can’t really get to us through temptation to sin, he looooves putting us on guilt trips about our devotions or not being spiritual “enough.” So… Always press onward toward the prize, but rest in the knowledge that God is regarding you with a Father’s eyes!
P.S. I missed seeing you at co-op. 😭
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March 10, 2017 at 9:25 pm
Thank you so much! I really appreciate this… I miss u too! 😢
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March 10, 2017 at 9:55 pm
❤
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March 10, 2017 at 9:57 pm
I should’ve worded that differently. Of course we’re ALL tempted to sin. I was thinking along the lines of what we in our humanity consider worse sins, like stealing, lying, etc. 🙂
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March 10, 2017 at 11:07 pm
That’s been happening to me too. But it has got better. But I still feel the same way! Stay strong! ❤
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March 12, 2017 at 10:31 pm
❤️
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March 11, 2017 at 1:06 am
I am constantly the same way. I have found, though, that if I just imagine how mad Satan will be if I stay on track, that motivates me 😂
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March 12, 2017 at 10:32 pm
Oh that’s so amazing 😂
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March 13, 2017 at 12:26 am
One thing that helps me in prayer is instead of saying I’m just going to have a “prayer time” once or twice a day. But try to talk to God throughout he day – when a certain temptation comes up, when you get frustrated about something, when your car is skidding on ice towards a highway, when you need help with something, when you don’t know the answer…. The list goes on. This has really helped me stay focused when talking to God because my mind can start to wander too.
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April 19, 2017 at 2:07 pm
hey, I love how raw and honest your posts are. I completely understand how we sometimes get stuck in these ruts like this. Start praying that God would reveal to you how you experience Him, because it can look different in different seasons if that makes sense. One thing that has worked for me is writing in a journal. I write as if it is a diary but i make it a prayer so that it is just open conversation with God, and then I pause, ask Him what he thinks about it and a new thought will come to me. The thoughts are related to the topic but they usually come out of no where and that is how God has been speaking to me. I used to try and read a certain amount of chapters in my bible and then journal everyday, but the same routines became dull and I found that it wasn’t an actual friendship with God. Instead, I go day by day asking God what I need from him in that day. Sometimes its just prayer, sometimes its reading the Bible and not journaling, sometimes its going for a run. Hope this is helpful 🙂
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