To curb my task-oriented nature and keep a right focus, I've been trying to take the first few minutes after Victor goes down for his nap to quiet my heart and pray.
Generally, I read the day's entry from Spurgeon's Morning & Evening (which is phenomenal) and then journal a prayer, for Victor, related to the reading. So encouraging.
Sunday's entry (February 19) fit hand in hand with our current sermon series on prayer.
Bottom line: Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. God delights to answer prayer. When He plants in our heart a desire to pray, it is because He has some good in store.
As Spurgeon says:
"Prayer is always the preface to blessing. It goes before the blessing as the blessing's shadow. When the sunlight of God's mercies rises upon our necessities, it casts the shadow of prayer far down upon the plain. Or, to use another illustration, when God piles up a hill of mercies, He Himself shines behind them, and He casts on our spirits the shadow of prayer, so that we may rest confident, if we are much in prayer, that our pleadings are the shadows of mercy."
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