Start the LIST!
I was listening to Pastor David Gibbs talk about prayer yesterday and he mentioned keeping a PRAYER LIST. For years I had done that, but recently fell away from that practice. Pastor Gibs was talking about how keeping a lists changes our prayers. He said without a list we often just "babble" in our prayers. He said we just pray in general terms, nothing specific. He said our prayers should be specific and without pretense as we approach the Lord. I need to revive my prayer list. I always kept it on my phone so it was handy to add a prayer but also to use as I pray. (I don't know about you, but my phone is always with me!) So I am vowing to REVIVE THE PRAYER LIST. I thought about prayer this morning as I read Genesis 32 and Jacob's prayer as he approached his estranged brother ESAU . This prayer is such a great example for us. "Then Jacob prayed. 'O God of my grandfather Abraham, and God of my father, Isaac -- O Lord, you told me, 'Return to your own...
