On average, you take over 17,000 breaths per day. Unless you’re doing special breathing exercises, you don’t have to remind yourself to breathe. It’s a natural thing to do. While you are alive, you breathe without ceasing. You need it to live.
How does this relate to praying without ceasing, 1The 5:17?
- Your soul needs prayer like your body needs breathing.
- In any situation, prayer should be your first choice rather than your last resort. You wouldn’t say, “I guess I’ll start breathing since nothing else has worked.”
- Just as breathing exercises can be helpful, prayer exercises can be helpful. See the post Prayer Challenge for some tips.
- Just as you can teach breathing exercises to others, you as a leader, can help others learn to pray. For an example, see the short lesson Prayer That Pleases God.
- The more you pray, the more natural it will become. Eventually, prayer can be as natural as breathing.
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