What is the value of prayer?

Sometimes it is very hard to pray - it can feel so lame and repetetive. I once read an exhortation to "let your praying become doing, and your doing praying."

(I've never been able to find where this qote came from, so if any of you can help me out, I'd be grateful!) For some reason it has stuck with me, and I've spent the past few years trying to "go and learn what this means." It is a hard lesson. Colossians 4:2 says we should be devoted to prayer - so, as a first point if we are doing what the Word says then doing does become praying. And prayer, I've noticed, is convicting. Yes, that ugly word. But conviction leads to action, and that is how praying becomes doing. There is another side to the coin though; if you don't do one, you will undoubtably fail to do the other (even if you don't notice that you're failing). Letting your praying become doing is a way of communing with God in all things, not just during your devotional time; instead, it moves that devotional time into every moment of your day because everything falls under the category "doing." ... more

The LORD, who is the inheritance of Jacob's descendants, is not like them.

He is the one who created everything.

And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own.

He is known as the LORD who rules over all.

(Jeremiah 10:16, NET) ... more