In Power through Prayer, E.M. Bounds argues persuasively for making prayer a priority in our busy schedules:
To pray is the greatest thing we can do: and to do it well there must be calmness, time, and deliberation; otherwise it is degraded into the littlest and meanest of things…There is nothing which it takes more time to learn. And if we would learn the wondrous art, we must not give a fragment here and there – “A little talk with Jesus” as the tiny saintlets sing – but we must demand and hold with iron grasp the best hours of the day for God and prayer.
The manifold rewards of a serious, consistent prayer life demonstrate clearly that time with our Lord should be our first priority.
Praise God for being above and beyond time; repent of any failure to give enough time to prayer, and for being too hurried in the time you did give; ask for His help in being more efficient and effective in your use of time; yield to Him by giving Him the best hours of your day in prayer.
