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The best bit of advice I ever received about how to pray was this: keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up.
Why do we binge mindlessly on Netflix at night, and gaze – like monks before icons – at our smartphones on the 07:34 to Waterloo? We seem to be increasingly attracted to activities that put the world’s relentless demands on hold, forcing us to focus for a few eternal moments on a single, simple thing. Hot yoga? Tetris? A lakeside in the pouring rain? Anything to assuage those pesky bistro chairs.
MOST PEOPLE’S BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH PRAYER IS GOD
Yes! Our domestication of God and our idolatry is the problem!
I have come to the conclusion that many people struggle with prayer simply because they doubt that God likes them.
The doctrine of faith has been terribly abused by certain wings of the Church where greed has been glorified and the poor have been oppressed by a heresy known as ‘the prosperity gospel’. Preachers promising health and wealth reduce prayer to a form of positive thinking and God himself to a sort of celestial algorithm.
Intercession is a way of loving others.’
