How to Pray When You Have Too Much to Do
Modern folks have too much to do…
What on earth do we do when there is no time? No time to relax, no time for ourselves, no time to pray, no time to know God’s word?
John Wesley, way back in the 1700’s, used to say that he had so much to do some days that he had to pray for two hours before he got started. He got a lot done- birthed churches all over America, brought people to God, started a revival…
So, none of us is John Wesley. Two hours might as well be two years- but we know we need to pray.
What if we tried the Eggs in a Basket Approach to an overcrowded day.
It goes like this:
1) Imagine every person you care about as an individual “egg” to pray over. Pray a scripture or one sentence over each person. Put each egg in an imaginary basket.
2) Imagine everything you have to do is another “egg”. Do the same with each of these eggs.
3) Imagine all your causes and groups that you hold dear- each one becomes an “egg”.
Now you have all your eggs in one basket- and in prayer that’s a good thing. You can carry that basket- eyes on God- through the day. But you don’t have to worry about each person and thing- they’ve all been prayed over and are under God’s care.
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