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This is a great reminder to again be praying from the heart and NOT just saying a prayer. At the Worship Conference, Donald Whitney spoke on how to pray as the Psalmist. It was an outstanding session and should be online for free in the near future. He spoke about how we have the tendency to "pray the same old thing, the same old way." Meaning if we are praying for our friends or family, we may just say "Lord, please bless them today..." and that is our prayer everyday. Not that that is a "bad" prayer, but it can lead to us being bored by it and then truly meaning it and then eventually stopping altogether, because it was we always do, without a thought. He said to go to the Psalms and scripture in general and pray from there. Read a verse and pray about what you want to pray about based from that. He let us do this for 5 minutes and to pick any Psalm and I was amazed at how easy it was, but also how much more refreshing it was. I was able to pray for things that I had in the past, but in a new way, based from scripture. I hope to do this on a day-to-day basis. It was one of those DUH! moments, "why have I never really done this before?" What are your thoughts? Do you find yourself "bored" by the same prayers or that you are just saying them to say them?

Sorry, if this was confusing, Don Whitney, does an excellent job of explaining this, so hopefully they will get it up soon...