Courts & Dwelling Places

Psalm 84:10 - Better is one day in your courts
   than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
   than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

This has been a great day. It all started not long after I woke up from a rare lie-in (woohoo!) and I decided to spend some time with God and prioritise Him before anything else. It was only about 10 minutes because a fly started buzzing and putting me off so I went downstairs, but what a 10 minutes it was!
Usually I'll wake up on these kind of quiet days and be 'meh' for the first few hours of the day and do nothing productive and generally feel awkward with nothing to do but today I just felt amazing and so in control and prepared for whatever :)

I went for some prayer later on and yet again it was an amazing time. The only possible reason I can think of for the amazingness of it is that God was there!

My problem is I am terrible at prioritising prayer and generally it means that it ends up the bottom of the pile underneath a rather unflattering list of work, facebook and anything else that can distract me from it. I believe prayer is so powerful and can change everything but my life doesn't reflect it anywhere what it should. I believe prayer is a lost art of the Church and we should take advantage of it more often, me definitly included!!

If we take Jesus at His Word, then prayer should absolutely be a priority:-

Mark 11:22-24
“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly^[a] I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

So let's get on those knees more often!!

Psalm 84:1-2

 ¹ How lovely is your dwelling place,
   LORD Almighty!
² My soul yearns, even faints,
   for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and my flesh cry out
   for the living God.