Counsel of Spiritual Life

Counsel #4 — Pray Anywhere

Picture: Counsel #4 — Pray Anywhere CSL 38.1

Pray everywhere! There is no place where you cannot speak to God in your heart, even if you can’t close your eyes. He longs for you to pour out your heart to Him, and in return to take away your fears, your pain, your discouragement and replace those burdens with peace.^[34] In God you will find the compassionate and caring Friend for whom you have always longed. He would have died in your place if you had been the only person on earth! That’s the kind of love you can trust. CSL 38.2

“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NKJV CSL 38.3

“There is no time or place in which it is inappropriate to offer up a petition to God. There is nothing that can prevent us from lifting up our hearts in the spirit of earnest prayer. In the crowds of the street, in the midst of a business engagement, we may send up a petition to God and plead for divine guidance…. We should have the door of the heart open continually and our invitation going up that Jesus may come and abide as a heavenly guest in the soul.” Ellen White in Steps to Christ, p. 99 CSL 38.4

Reflect: How do you keep the lines of prayer open with Jesus throughout the day? CSL 38.5