Prayer

Never stop praying. (1 Thessalonians 5:17 NLT)

I’ve often struggled to make time to pray, I find myself neglecting that regular “talking with Jesus” throughout the day, especially when sudden things come up. I know I need to pray, but it’s hard, really hard, to set aside “prayer time.”

Then, I read about the 2-Minute Rule. Here’s how it works.

Most of the tasks that we procrastinate on aren’t actually difficult to do: it’s completely possible to accomplish them—we just avoid starting them for some reason, mostly because we “don’t have time.”

The 2–Minute Rule overcomes procrastination and laziness by making it so easy to start taking action. There are two parts to the 2–Minute Rule.

Part 1: If it takes less than two minutes, then do it now. - So, the rule says if a task takes less than two minutes to complete, do it right away. Does that apply to prayer? It sure does!

Part 2: When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do. - Can all of our goals be accomplished in less than two minutes? Of course not, but every goal can be started in two minutes or less.

Longer, desperate prayers are good, and certainly needed, but a good start is to pray even short prayers now, without delaying.—Chris Mizrany [1]

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.—Oswald Chambers (1874–1917)

[1] Activated, Vol 19 issue 8, August 2018.