"Do you usually wait?"

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A coaching client and I were talking about prayer one day.

"One of the things I get frustrated with is having to wait to pray," he said.

I asked, "Why do you wait?"

"Well," he said, "I don’t want to bother God all day long."

"Has God ever told you not to bother ringing heaven’s phone so much?" I asked.

"Well no, but I just figured God has more important things to work on than my problems. So I just wait," he said.

"And how long do you wait?" I replied.

"Well, until bedtime…or the next morning," he said.

"I can’t remember that long," I told him.

"Yea, most of the time I forget, too," he said.

I encouraged him to pray on the spot for the next week, not waiting, but just breathing a prayer for someone or himself in the moment and let’s see what happened.

The next week when we talked, he was so excited and said, "I can’t believe how much better my outlook is, how much improved my attitude is, and how great I feel. All because I pray on the spot. And I’m not bothering God!"

Try praying on the spot as you make a life, not just a living today.

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