You can be neither devoted to prayer nor alert in it if you do not commit to a time where you are doing nothing but praying. This practice is called intentional prayer. Now, prayer is never really accidental; neither should it be incidental. Followers of Jesus need to commit to times of intentional solitude, with all artificial noises blocked out and adequate time to focus on talking to God scheduled in. As busy as we think we are, none of us has as large a burden placed on us as Jesus did. And even though Jesus was perfectly sinless, he still needed to disconnect, detach, and devote solitary
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