Prayer

As part of our New Year's resolutions, my wife and I committed to praying together daily.  We used to make this a normal part of our day but over the past couple of years we have gone through some tough times when it seemed God just wasn't hearing or, worse, just didn't seem to care.  Because of that we let this habit fall out of our lives and we prayed, if we prayed, separately.

Over the past few weeks the thing I have re-discovered is that our times of prayer together change my day.  I have been more encouraged because we have determined not just to petition God for our needs but to praise Him for who He is and to thank Him for all we can see at present He is doing in our lives and in the lives of those we love particularly.  When we do that together we end up praying in our petitions for different things, we have built a platform of trust in Him by praise and thanksgiving and our desires for which we make supplication have been altered and set on higher things.

The last couple of days we have been "too busy to pray together."  She has had things to do and I have been busy with other people and we haven't taken the time to pray.  I notice that I don't feel the same this morning and I know that is because I have been simply tossing up needs based prayers as I go through my day and not taking the time for praise and worship in my prayers.  I sense the distance I have put between me and Him by being too busy to spend that time.

How do we learn to pray with one another in the church?  We need to set aside times for prayer together.  Who's in?