I’ve been pretty good with prayer for most of my life. I’ll admit that I hadn’t really focused on the adulation part of “Adulation, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication” until recent years, but I pretty much prayed every day.

That changed in the last few months. I don’t know why, but I think it had something to do with feeling guilty about my sin and not feeling worthy to go before God until the sting of my sin was dulled. I know that doesn’t make sense, since God doesn’t forget about what I’ve done because I waited to talk to him, but knowledge doesn’t always affect emotions and feelings the way it should. So, my prayer life had been kind of dwindling until the past couple of days.

This morning, after I finished praying, I was thinking about what was different this week that I felt more of a desire to and more at ease with praying. Then it hit me and I had to smile.

Since our church has been without a preacher, we’ve had different speakers every week. Last week, John Turner gave a sermon on prayer. This Sunday, we talked about prayer in Kevin Ziegler’s Bible class. Then that morning, Tim Ault gave a sermon on appreciation that largely focused on prayer.

I’m not one to think that events take place solely for me. Meaning, I don’t think God had all three of those lessons happen just to get my prayer life back on track. But I am really grateful that prayer was the focus for those three lessons. Hearing it so often made me aware of what I had been missing out on.

I just thought I would share this experience to encourage you to not let your prayer life dwindle and keep your eyes open for the ways God is affecting your life.