Three very important elements to our faith, three traditionally very important parts of our Spiritual Journey.
Let us look at what each of these mean to our faith:
Prayer
This is the most wonderful special act of love, so many of us share every single day.
In prayer we lift up our soul to God in love and praise and thanksgiving.
Prayer builds up and empowers our faith, and faith comes from our hope, and our hope and desire for Him leads us to hunger, a hunger for Him and His word and the grace that leads us to God, which leads us to prayer.
Prayer is an essential part of who we are in God, and in our walk following after Jesus.
We must be a praying people, our communication with God is vital to our eternal life and the transition that we will go through at our death.
I encourage you to please pick a devotion that is of interest to you, and then try to pray and speak to God every single day.
Our conversation doesn't necessarily have to be written prayers only, we can speak plainly to Him also.
We are in relationship to a person, Jesus.
And in that relationship we can freely talk and share and open our hearts to Him.
“Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy;
finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.”
St. Therese of Lisieux
“Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.”
St. John Chrysostom
“How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.”
St. Teresa of Avila