Prayer Exercise 6

Game with Minutes

The idea with this type of prayer is to take a given hour each day and see how man minutes during that hour you can be conscious of God’s presence. At first you will find the practice difficult and your “score” will be low. That is all right; you are developing new spiritual muscles. With practice, the habit will become more and more ingrained. Make your first experiment in a worship service and hopefully that will be an aid to your concentration. In time extend the experiment to the whole of your day.

The reason it is called a game is because it can become a delightful spiritual exercise. There needs to be a certain joyful lightheartedness about your task. Otherwise we will become overly serious and dreadfully boring. In this little exercise we are coming alive to God. The glory of the experiment is that it works best when we concentrate not upon ourselves but upon others. We miss the point if we are taking our spiritual temperature every few moments to see if we are concentrating upon God enough. How much better if we try every moment to give God to someone else????