Stress-Free Life?

One of the secrets of living a Stress-Free life is to give up
all unimportant preoccupations in our lives. Give your
energy and attention to the essentials of life e.g. building
up family unity, loving God, being compassionate to the
poor and developing a meaningful prayer life.

And the toughest of it all is developing a meaningful
prayer life. Some of us already find it difficult to pray,
how then can it be meaningful?

I once received a prayer guide during one of the camps
in church. It's a 4 step guide to daily prayer sequence.
It goes like this.

1. Acknowledge the Lord's presence

2. Thank Him

3. Ask for help from Him.

4. Ask for help for others.

At each step, we have some reflection time.

Ever since I received this guide I thought that this prayer
sequence is quick and good. Especially when its guided.

And then, I received another Prayer Guide. It was my Christmas
gift from Matt n Angel. It's called,
Miracle Hour: A Method of Prayer That will Change your Life

It's a fantastic book. A detailed guided prayer for daily use. As the
book says it, Miracle Hour, it takes 1 hour to complete your tour.
It has 12 sections where you spend about 5 mins at each section.

The prayer starts with prasing and singing to the Lord and
ends with thanksgiving. It's the perfect book for those who
struggle with time to pray.

Prayer's can be guided as I've mentioned. But I believe that prayer
has to be radical.

Today I was on my com finishing up my reports and feeling so tired
and irritated. The song, How Great is Our God came on my mp3.
Halfway through the song, at the bridge, my eyes closed. I was
filled with a great sense of joy and empowerment. I worshipped
God at that moment without realising it. I was recharged!

I hope your solution to stress-free life is
Prayer, Worship and Thanksgiving.

Thank You Lord!


- Rhino 1