WHEN YOUR PRAYER IS OFF-CENTRE
If God is not in the centre of your life and world, He is off-centre.
When He is off-centre, even your prayer will be off-centre.
When your prayer is off-centre, your daily liturgy could go something like this:
‘O Mighty Me, hallowed be my name. My Kingdom come, my will be done on earth and everywhere else. Give me this day what I want. Let others forget my mess even though I cannot forget their mess. Lead me into temptation and deliver me from all good. For mine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen’
None of us may pray these exact words, but many times we run our lives living out the words of this selfish prayer.
If we practice the prayer that Jesus taught the disciples in Matthew 6 we would bring God to the centre of our lives. That changes everything.
We would daily keep God as the focus in all that we do.
We would make the Kingdom-Cry(Matthew 6:10) as the ignition to all our endeavours.
We would look to God as the source of all our provisions and not live out a frustrated existence.
We would be more gracious to people’s faults as God is gracious to us.
We would desire to walk holy before God and people bringing glory to God.
Today it’s time for us to change our focus and let God run our life’s business!
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