We Keep Praying...

...He keeps answering.  It seems so simple, but so often we get out of the habit of prayer, or we never established it to begin with.  I do not know what I would do without my daily prayer time and my prayer journal.  Years ago I acquired a three ring binder that is called the "29/59 Plan".  The object is to organize one's daily prayer time for about 30 minutes a day (or 29 minutes and 59 seconds, if you get the drift).

For the last several years I have been pretty faithful to get on my stationary bike and pedal for 30 minutes each morning while working my way through the prayer journal.  There are some things I pray for daily (it is a pretty long list), and some things I pray for on a particular day of the week.

About once every month or so, I have to update the daily list because I have scribbled new names or requests on it, or I have filled up empty spaces with those three wonderful letters "PTL".  I keep those old pages in the back of the binder and review them about once a week.  It is AMAZING to look back and see the prayers God has answered.

A recent PTL was recorded last week when my son and his wife announced we would have a new grandson around Thanksgiving this year.  Another recent PTL was confirmation that I would see a friend whose spiritual condition I was uncertain of in Heaven some day.  PTL!

If you are interested, you can make your own "29/59" with a three ring binder and 8 dividers.  Make one divider for "daily", then one for each day of the week.  Then start praying.  I promise, He will start answering.  That's not just my promise.  It's His. 

Mt. 7:7-11