Praying the Psalms 1
How do I pray is a common question, even the disciples had to ask Jesus for guidance! Here are a few tips to get improve your prayer life. 1. Place Find a good place to pray, where you won't be disturbed or distracted. Ideally, it should be a separate place, whose only purpose is for meeting with God. That spot becomes associated in your mind with meeting God. It helps to focus the mind - this is my prayer chair, not my TV chair. It is good to have notebooks, pens and bibles to hand so you don't get interrupted to go and find them. If you have a busy life and get distracted by daily tasks - Have a distraction notebook - if your mind wanders to a task you need to remember, jot a note in your distraction notebook and then forget about it. You can deal with that later without worrying you might forget. It will minimise the time you are distracted. 2. Time Set a regular time that you can stick to. Monks set aside up to 8 daily prayer times - at 3 ho...