I just have to think that God deserves this.

My little offering to him is just my full attention.

If I'm like, well, my to-do list is more important.

Or my phone or Instagram or whatever, I really think we need to reckon with our inability to sit with God.

Welcome back to Verity Podcast friends. I'm Felicia Masonheimer, your host, founder of

every woman a theologian, the ministry attached to Verity Podcast. We are in the middle of

our prayer series, answering questions that you submitted to us about the nature of prayer,

how to pray, how to make prayer a habit. And this is episode seven. Why am I bored by prayer?

If you have ever been bored when praying or struggled to stay awake or struggle to focus

during prayer, you are not alone. This is a very common

struggle, and I would argue that every Christian walks through a period of boredom in their

prayer life at some point in their Christian walk. So why is it that some Christians seem so

enriched and empowered by prayer and others seem to be so bored. Well, so often what this reveals

is an underlying theology behind prayer. Our understanding of what prayer does, what it's able to do,

what God has asked of us, really plays a role in how attentive we are to it. If you think about the things that you

love to pay attention to, the things that just are riveting and keep you tuned in,

there are things that you find interesting, intriguing, or that you think are extremely

beneficial to you, are accomplishing a purpose. But if you feel like something is

purposeless, it's, it's not that interesting, it's not taking you anywhere or impacting anyone

or anything, it's really hard to stay engaged with that practice, especially if it requires

discipline and consistency. And so when it comes to our prayer life,

not only are all of these things true, we have to remember there's also that factor of

...