Prayer for Focus: How to Train Your Heart and Mind to Stay Present
Elizabeth Strauss Elizabeth Strauss

Prayer for Focus: How to Train Your Heart and Mind to Stay Present

Week 7

For a long time, I felt like I was failing at prayer. I just couldn’t get it right. How do people pray for hours? I get bored quickly, and using words I don’t normally use feels uncomfortable. I believe God knows me and what I need, so He would also know if I’m being fake or just putting on a show…

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Prayer as Resistance to Hurry and Burnout
Devotional Arne Kristoffer Haaland Devotional Arne Kristoffer Haaland

Prayer as Resistance to Hurry and Burnout

Week 6

“Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil,” goes the famous quote attributed to psychologist Carl Jung. While we believe that the Devil does exist as a spiritual being, I am certain that busyness and hurry are among his main strategies to prevent Christians from growing spiritually and living out God’s purposes in their everyday lives. C.S. Lewis writes about this in “The Screwtape Letters,” where he imagines a dialogue between two demons…

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