I recently read J.C. Ryle's A Call To Prayer. He was a late 19th century Anglican bishop, of all things, and he had a great deal of good things to say. This is one of the books my father reads every year.
He asked the reader a question: Do you pray for your work, your family, your relationship with God, your friendships, your house?
I was convicted. I pray about a lot of things, but I had recently been dreaming about building a house. I had collected magazine clippings, read every book at the local library about houses, talked to my husband, my parents, my children, and builder and engineering friends, drew house designs and garden designs. I have a folder with lists of things that I want in my new house. But, I had never, not once, ever prayed about the new house. If this is a gift to us from the Lord, He should have some input. So, since then, I have been praying. It is, after all, His money and His time that is going to go into it and if we want the house to work, we want the best Engineer possible on the job.
The point is, I thought my plan for building a house was outside of God's interest. Either He wouldn't care or it wasn't His job to plan my house. My question for you today is, "Is there anything in your life that you haven't been praying about? Why?"
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