Habits are powerful things, and they're either enslaving or they're liberating.

A famed educator of a bygone generation said that habit is a cable, that we weave a thread of it every day and at the end you can't break it.

I think there's some truth in that.

And yet, if you're not careful, routines, even good routines can become ruts.

They can grow empty and we can get stale.

And I don't know if you've ever had this happen in your prayer

life, but I have where you're just going through the motions and you're saying all the right

things, but there seems to be so little heart in it. I've learned through the years that as surely as

you have to build routines, sometimes you have to break them. Sometimes you've got to switch it up just a bit and have

some variety just to keep yourself fresh. God never gets stale, but we certainly do. Today, on

enjoying the journey, we're talking about keeping prayer fresh. This is, again, a continuation of our current questions and Bible answers.

And we've received some questions about how to pray and not just go through the motions and

mechanics of it. I think all of us struggle with this at times. How do you keep your prayer life

fresh? Let's begin with a verse from Colossians chapter 4 and verse number 2.

What a great verse.

Continue in prayer.

I think all of us would understand, yes, we believe that.

We want to continue in prayer.

We want to as scripture says, pray without ceasing. But even when you are

continuing in prayer, is it possible that you are praying, but you're not really praying,

that you are going through the discipline of it, but you've lost the delight in it? Certainly,

without question. And that is why, in the words that follow this admonition from the Apostle Paul to the church at Colosse, I think there's

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