While listening to this song, I reflected on the importance of sincerity in communication. Without sincerity, words come off as “blah, blah, blah, blah.”
I thought about my sincerity in prayer. I have made the most personal progress in my life during periods of interesting prayer. I have been the most stagnate when I have been repetitious or absent in my prayers.
An interesting prayer is when I think clearly about root matters in my life and am honest with Heavenly Father about the true nature of my struggles. It is most powerful when I have real intent to discover His will along with the faith of an open mind to hear divine guidance over my personal preferences. This conflict is referred to as a “wrestle” sometimes in scripture. Opening prayer with gratitude helps to soften my heart so that I have a better chance at “yielding my heart” unto Him.
Prayer really is a conversation with Heavenly Father.
When I was struggling with my faith, some of my entrepreneur friends made a very good point: “It’s better to believe in God and be wrong than to not believe and be wrong.” I clung to that statement for years while I shut down my prayers. Eventually, I decided to start praying again and slowly began to regain the spiritual confidence I had lost by reigniting my personal prayerful relationship with Him.
The daily reflection of gratitude and accountability represented by prayer is one of the best personal improvement habits we can develop. If you haven’t experimented with things of a religious nature much before, you might consider experimenting with daily prayer and see how it feels.
Even though Heavenly Father already knows everything about us, He asks us to pray. Our act of communicating sincerely opens up channels for His divine assistance and blessing.
He hears and responds. He’s ready to tell us what we need to know and what we want to know, as we exercise faith by making prayer a consistent component of our lives.
Any sincere prayer is acceptable. We can pray silently in our heads. We can also pray out loud. Keeping a prayer in the heart is a choice to integrate Heavenly Father more directly into living life. I have recently begun prayer aloud and recommend it.
One of my favorite scriptures about prayer is 2 Nephi 32.
8 And now, my beloved brethren, I perceive that ye ponder still in your hearts; and it grieveth me that I must speak concerning this thing. For if ye would hearken unto the Spirit which teacheth a man to pray, ye would know that ye must pray; for the devil spirit teacheth not a man to pray, but teacheth him that he must not pray.
9 But behold, I say unto you that ye must pray always, and not faint; that ye must not perform any thing unto the Lord save in the first place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Christ, that he will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the welfare of thy soul.
Prayer is important for the high-performing entrepreneurial crowd that reads this blog. Prayer directs that energy and power in the right direction.
Prayer is important for families, to strengthen both the family’s connection with heaven and the bonds among the members. There is something quite endearing in hearing others speak to God, especially when they show an outpouring of love towards family members aloud in the prayer.
Let’s pray for each other!
I have made more progress in my family, business, and life in the last 6 months of prayer than I have in the last 6 years without it. I know it can do the same for anyone else too, and I promise the experiment is worth it.
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