Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are picking up with day four of our

habit reboot devotional in the Bible app. There's a link to that in the description of the podcast

if you guys want to follow along with us and as always I'm going to read the scripture and then

Tori's going to pick it with the divo. Let's do it. The scripture is Matthew chapter seven

verse seven and it says this ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and

the door will be open to you. The devotional is titled core habit number two speak with God

and it says in some ways prayer is both easy and challenging at the same time. On the one hand

prayer is surprisingly easy you don't have to learn how to pray there's no formula or procedure.

You can begin to talk with God and just share what's on your mind. In prayer we get God's ear

God who made us and who knows everything about us invites us to come boldly into his presence

and relate to him. If you don't feel like praying then pray about that. If you are angry

tempted or discouraged then tell God when we pray we can tell God whatever is on our minds

although prayer is easy it's also very hard it may be one of the hardest things in the world

our minds wander we struggle to be honest we see prayer as a duty rather than as a privilege

we begin to question whether prayer is worth it. Prayer is supposed to be easy but we often find it hard

we begin to worry we don't know what to say we have a hard time slowing down nobody responds

and it feels like we're talking to ourselves we wonder if God is there or if prayer makes a

difference. Prayer is both easy and challenging at the same time suggest start the hardest thing

about prayer is the small gap between thinking about praying and actually praying writes Tim

car that is just to begin the hardest part is just to start praying so shrink that gap acknowledge

any fear resistance or discomfort you may feel and then take a moment right now to practice your

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