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Our thinking about prayer, whether right or wrong, is based on our own mental conception of it. The correct concept is to think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts. Our blood flows and our breathing continues “without ceasing”; we are not even conscious of it, but it never stops. And we are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect oneness with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer. “Pray without ceasing …”— maintain the childlike habit of offering up prayer in your heart to God all the time.

Jesus never mentioned unanswered prayer. He had the unlimited certainty of knowing that prayer is always answered. Do we have through the Spirit of God that inexpressible certainty that Jesus had about prayer, or do we think of the times when it seemed that God did not answer our prayer? Jesus said, “… everyone who asks receives …” (Matthew 7:8). Yet we say, “But … , but … .” God answers prayer in the best way— not just sometimes, but every time. However, the evidence of the answer in the area we want it may not always immediately follow. Do we expect God to answer prayer?

The danger we have is that we want to water down what Jesus said to make it mean something that aligns with our common sense. But if it were only common sense, what He said would not even be worthwhile. The things Jesus taught about prayer are supernatural truths He reveals to us.

-My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers

It’s ironic to me that we throw around the phrase “smile and pretend like everything’s okay”

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I wonder why it’s so hard to maintain good habits, 

yet we fall back so easily on the bad ones

my mom once told me that she wishes I were a bit more 지독해, as in she wants me to approach my goals/challenges with a sense of fierce determination and a cut-throat attitude to get things accomplished

but usually laziness wins 

and honestly, when i see people with that kind of mindset, more often than not, they’re not exactly happy in the end

i’d rather “smell the roses” along the way i guess

too bad the field i want to be in actually requires me to be determined, cut throat, basically have a type A personality. 

not that it’d be a bad thing to procrastinate less, be a little more competitive and achieve ‘more’

and yet, as I write this, I’m laying on my bed debating whether I want to watch tv or take a nap

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