A Prayer to Stop Drifting from God by Debbie McDaniel

We see it all around us, in headline news stories or from the lives of those we know and

maybe once trusted, and even so often in our very own lives.

Sometimes it happens before we realize what's occurred.

It's unintentional, we don't plan it.

Walled by the slow pull away, swayed by other things we start deeming more important,

we wake up one day and realize things seem different.

We find ourselves in a place we never intended to go.

Five dangers of drifting.

One, we begin to pull away from godly influences.

Marriage is suffer, trust gets broken, we lose our heart for others.

We fall away from close fellowship with other believers.

We neglect accountability and connection with those who would encourage our walking Christ.

Matthew 22, 37-40.

Two, we stop praying.

We're too busy, we're weary, or simply overwhelmed.

We shoot a few prayers up his way like, Lord bless our day,

but we're unaffected by the lack of closeness we have with our Creator.

Constantly wired to electronic devices,

we're more in tune to what others are saying and doing, the constant media chatter,

than we are to what is on God's heart for the day.

First Thessalonians 517.

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