
The Practice Of Prayer
• Series: Kingdom Practices
Week 3 - The Practice Of Prayer 10/8/23 Application Questions: 1. Start small Start where you are, not where you “should be”. If 30 minutes a day is too much, start with 10. If daily is too much, start with weekly. 2. Think subtraction, not addition Please do not add a daily prayer rhythm into your already over busy, overfull life. Think, “What can I cut out?” A morning glance at the news? A lunch break scroll through social media? An evening TV show habit? Formation is about less, not more. 3. You get out what you put in The more fully you give yourself to this Practice, the more life-changing it will be. The more you just dabble with it, the more shortcuts you take, the less of an effect it will have on your transformation. 4. Remember the J-curve Experts on learning tell us that mastering a new skill tends to follow a J-shaped curve; we tend to get worse before we get better. If you currently enjoy your times of prayer, don’t be surprised if some of these new types of prayer feel awkward and difficult. Just stay with the Practice; you will come around. 5. There is no formation without repetition Spiritual formation is slow, deep, cumulative work that takes years, not weeks. The goal of this four-week experience is just to get you started on a journey of a lifetime. Upon completion of this Practice, you will have a map for the journey ahead and hopefully some possible companions for the Way. But what you do next is up to you.