Day 15:  About Prayer

From Touching the Clouds: Encouraging Stories to Make Your Faith Soar

Mable Dumas, wife, mother and Bible teacher made a commitment to spend one hour each day in prayer. She said, “Anyone can be as close to God as he or she wants to be. He is willing and waiting. I use my divine imagination when reading Scripture and imagine myself running barefoot through the Psalms, finding words that speak of God’s guidance, listening, answering, understanding, waiting, forgiving, watching. When I think of the Bible as words and thoughts from the mind of God, time spent with Him is always exciting, never boring. I have discovered that God doesn’t want my day. He wants me.”

Mable wrote the following “Mind Programmers” when she was going through a deep trial in her life. She recorded them on a flip chart and they have been shared around the world: These are only a sampling—

It is clear from Scripture that prayer and faith walk hand in hand. We are urged to “pray without ceasing” (I Thessalonians 5: 17). For the believer, prayer is not optional; it is essential to maintaining a viable relationship with the living God.