Awaken The Dawn

AWAKEN THE DAWN!

exercise properly; come to grips with personal priorities. After you’ve begun your morning prayer, hopefully, you would have sufficient sleep so that you will be alert. When your mind and strength is at an optimum, give that time for your communion with God. Why should He be given your tired time or your left-over time? Give God the first hour of your day for prayer, and your prayer life will become more dynamic! Many have told me that their best intentions to pray remained earnest plans because of life’s pressures until they started their day with prayer. These same people attest that their spirituality became stronger after they started praying first when they wake up in the morning. Some studies have indicated that watching television is addictive. I know that I have found myself riveted on the television for three hours at a stretch, when under the same circumstances, I would fall asleep reading a book. Why are we compelled to watch the eleven o’clock news? The addiction can really get out of hand with one of those hand-held channel-changers! Add cable television and you can find yourself watching two movies, the news, while surfing a dozen other channels—all at the same time! Amazingly, I found my whole life-situation adjusting to the priority of prayer, rather than prayer adjusting to my life habits. It may be an exaggeration, but I think morning prayer is the one thing that can wean us from must-see- TV evenings and bring order into our frazzled lives. The seductive fascinations of our worldly system will pale before the greater magnetism of the spiritual life. And I maintain, for many of us, this is best accomplished through regular early morning prayer.

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