WHAT DOES “PRAY WITHOUT CEASING” EVEN MEAN?
BUT HOW? Is it possible to pray non-stop? Did Jesus pray non-stop? How’s about when He was working (He was a carpenter)? Or when He was sleeping in that boat during the storm? Or when He was hanging out with Lazarus, Mary and Martha so much that they became some of His closest family friends? So why did Paul instruct us in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 to pray without ceasing?
This week, we will explore what it means to pray without ceasing and whether this can actually and practically become a defining feature in your life. 🤔Join me this week on Coach Toyin’s B.O.O.M TIPS on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday mid-morning posts for more on this question 😉.
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ADIALEIPTOS 🤔Yup, sometimes it’s not a bad idea to dig deeper to understand what you don’t understand 😉. Adialeiptos is the Greek word used for “without ceasing” in 1 Thessalonians 5:17, and guess what? It doesn’t mean “pray non-stop”! Lol!
It means, “constantly recurring”. In other words, let prayer be a constant and recurring feature of your daily moments💥.
So like I asked in Monday’s #boomtip, did Jesus “pray without ceasing”? Well, yes He did, because He adialeiptos’d (sorry to the Greek scholars); He made prayer a constant and recurring feature in His daily moments.
Okay okay, you may be thinking, how in the world, is it possible to make prayer a constant and recurring feature of your life, considering how busy life is? Gather back here at the same time on Friday and Sunday to hear my boomtips on how to do that practically😉.
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LOCATE YOURSELF 😌. It’s simple actually, which is weird because it has taken a whole lot for me to get here. For me, praying without ceasing has become possible, because I am learning to be and remain aware that one👉 God is always present with me, and two 👉I am His child and I live in Him, which means not only am I always welcome to pull up a chair and chat, it is my right, and duty to keep that chit-chat going. 💥
In other words, I am daily locating myself in God’s presence and that keeps Him on my mind. When God remains on your mind, you will keep talking to Him and listening, and talking, and listening…🙂😌😮
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WORK IN PROGRESS. This week, I’ve ‘boomtipped’ you that ‘pray without ceasing’ simply means make prayer a constant and recurring feature of your life.
“But I’m too busy, Coach Toyin,” you may be saying. Well, decide now. What do you really believe? What kind of life do you want to live😌? Prayer is the way to align with God’s agenda for your life and receive guidance and power for what you need to do. So you cannot say you are too busy to ‘pray without ceasing’ because that’s you cutting off your source of strength, grace and guidance to do those very things that you are so busy doing💥.
Gosh, it is through prayer that you get to discover whether all that stuff that’s keeping you stressed and busy is actually what you are meant to be filling your life with😮.
So become work in progress today; start to make prayer a constant and recurring feature of your life.
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Coach Toyin, Founder of The Narrow Gateway
As always, I end this by saying, I am Coach Toyin, fully convicted by my own words and very much still under construction in the hands of the Father.
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