If you have to force yourself to pray, those prayers are of far more account with God than any prayers which bring comfort with them.
Day, Dorothy. The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics) (p. 49). Plough Publishing House. Kindle Edition.
Prayer (en)forced by discipline
Better than no prayer at all
Maybe
Prayer forced by need
Day after day
Hour after hour
Even if only
“I need You”
Certain
dw
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One reply on “Forced prayer”
Yes, that’s why Jesus prayed the model prayer; not necessarily for us to repeat verbatim, but so that we will know the way to approach prayer, the reverence of it and the intimacy of it.
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