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Saturday, March 01, 2008

Today's Praycation

I took a praycation today, and it was very fulfilling. Jesus took praycations a lot. He used to go into secluded places to pray to the Father. At least one time, He prayed right through the whole night! I hope my prayer life will look like that soon. A couple of blogs ago I wrote about my frustration with my prayer life. I want to improve on that by the grace of God, so I took a praycation today.

I've been especially influenced lately by George Mueller - the man who, by prayer and simple, but systematic faith in God's promises, literally changed his country and later on countless individuals like myself who have read his stories. He also prayed for hours at a time, and sometimes for years before his prayers were answered. So I have at least 2 aforementioned role models to emulate. :)

By the way, I officially hold the patent on the term "praycation".

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Continue to pray and seek his face. Dont settle for nothing less!

Beth Hopkins said...

Dog-gone it Eliot...can I donate to a ministry in exchange for using the rights on "praycation"? I like that word. It's exactly what I need to do...take a day of nothing but praycation. What a great blog. My prayer life is so wanning and I don't know how or why I got to this point...it's just so frustrating. I need to find REAL prayer again...on my knees...or prostrate on the floor. I want to experience God mightily again. I need to serve Him more...I need to share the gospel more...I feel like I'm letting Him down everyday. Let's meet in Auburn one weekend and go share/preach the gospel to all that would hear. I'm ready to go...I NEED to go.

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