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 three of our

make prayer, a habit 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

then Torrey is going to pick up with the divo. Let's do it. The scripture is Luke chapter 18 verse 13

and it says this, but the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even lift his eyes to

heaven as he prayed. Instead he beat his chest and sorrow saying, oh God be merciful to me for I

am a sinner. The devotional says, I remember my grandmother always had her Bible lying on the kitchen

table together with a prayer book and a crossword. Sometimes I would drop by her place and she would

just sit there at the table with her hands in prayer. I don't know for how long she was sitting

there like that. It could have been for hours or just one moment. This could happen at any time

during the day and it always gave me a feeling of peace and calm. I knew she was always praying for

her children, grandchildren and everyone around her. Sometimes I wonder what stops me from doing the

same. What makes the simple act of prayer feel like a bigger task than it should be. Amen. Granted

it's not easy to be like my grandmother in this busy day and age. The present day demands so much

of our attention that we end up thinking it's possible to pray only after the work is done. The kids

are asleep or after our favorite TV show is over. We may want to have a special place with candles

and a cup of coffee or tea sit on a specific chair during a specific time in the evening. We think

we need the ideal setup in order to pray. Well I'm guilty of that. But as much as it's useful to take

our time for our planned meetings with God, we also need the fast, spontaneous,

flash prayers, one liners throughout the whole day. These small prayers are just a few words

coming out of our hearts that can be found quite often in the Bible even though easily overlooked.

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