1 Co 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? 7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Here are 3 triggers that prompt me to pray during my workday.
#1: My commute. For decades, Dave Hataj, Owner of Edgerton Gear in Wisconsin, has prayed the Lord’s Prayer on his drive to work, ending it like this: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done at Edgerton Gear as it is in heaven.” I love that and often pray “at Jordan Raynor & Company” as it is in heaven on the 30 second commute from my living room to my upstairs office.
#2: The sticky note on my refrigerator. This isn’t fancy. It just says PRAY. But now when I am waiting for coffee to warm up in the microwave, I am much less likely to aimlessly wander through my phone and much more likely to intentionally wander into God's presence through prayer.
#3: An empty Zoom room. I’m 2-5 minutes early to most Zoom meetings. I used to spend this time processing items in my CTS Inbox or (let’s be honest) checking my books’ bestseller rankings. But now—most of the time—I use those minutes to pray for the meeting that’s about to begin.
#1: My commute. For decades, Dave Hataj, Owner of Edgerton Gear in Wisconsin, has prayed the Lord’s Prayer on his drive to work, ending it like this: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done at Edgerton Gear as it is in heaven.” I love that and often pray “at Jordan Raynor & Company” as it is in heaven on the 30 second commute from my living room to my upstairs office.
#2: The sticky note on my refrigerator. This isn’t fancy. It just says PRAY. But now when I am waiting for coffee to warm up in the microwave, I am much less likely to aimlessly wander through my phone and much more likely to intentionally wander into God's presence through prayer.
#3: An empty Zoom room. I’m 2-5 minutes early to most Zoom meetings. I used to spend this time processing items in my CTS Inbox or (let’s be honest) checking my books’ bestseller rankings. But now—most of the time—I use those minutes to pray for the meeting that’s about to begin.
John 17:25 “O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; 26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Psalms 121:1 I will lift up my eyes to the mountains;
From where shall my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not allow your foot to slip;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, He who keeps Israel
Will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is your keeper;
The Lord is your shade on your right hand.
6 The sun will not smite you by day,
Nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord will protect you from all evil;
He will keep your soul.
8 The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in
From this time forth and forever.
From where shall my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not allow your foot to slip;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, He who keeps Israel
Will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is your keeper;
The Lord is your shade on your right hand.
6 The sun will not smite you by day,
Nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord will protect you from all evil;
He will keep your soul.
8 The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in
From this time forth and forever.
When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.”
(Matthew 6:16-20)
(Matthew 6:16-20)