If you cannot recollect yourself continuously do so once a day at least in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you have said this day what you have done and thought for in these things perhaps you have often offended God and those about you.

To live pray. To learn read. To love give. To listen pay attention. But to be wise apply all that you have acquired

Jai Shiv shambu shiv shankar Jai Bhole..

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word Begin

The flesh resists this daily humiliation first by a frontal attack and later by hiding itself under the words of the spirit i.e. in the name of evangelical liberty. We claim liberty from all legal compulsion from self-martyrdom and mortification and play this off against the proper evangelical use of discipline and asceticism we thus excuse our self-indulgence and irregularity in prayer in meditation and in our bodily life. But the contrast between our behavior and the word of Jesus is all too painfully evident. We forget that discipleship means estrangement from the world and we forget the real joy and freedom which are the outcome of a devout rule of life. As soon as a Christian recognizes that he has failed in his service that his readiness has become feeble and that he has sinned against anothers life and become guilty of anothers guilt that all his joy in God has vanished and that his capacity for prayer has quite gone it is high time for him to launch an assault upon the flesh and prepare for better service by fasting and prayer Luke 237 42 Mark 929 1 Cor. 75.

When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall Pray. Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

I am a child of the everlasting King.I am forgiven.I am a warrior.I am cloaked in righteous armor.I was made for adventure.I was built for battle.I am part of a larger story.My true and lasting affirmation comes only from my King.I am unique above all creation--planned and perfect in design.I have been created for a glorious destiny.All my ways are established by you my King and I walk in them.My life and actions are real authentic and without compromise.I am quickened and made alive through the power of your Spirit.My whole life is before me.I am a shining gift from God to this lost world.I know my name I understand my calling and I am worthy to walk in it.I am strong brave and courageous in the face of my enemies.Whatever is good whatever is pure whatever is true dwell on these things.My sins are scattered as far as the east is from the west.I am a good husband to my wife.I am a good father to my daughters.The past is over and the future glimmers with radiant light.I will look to the new day the dawning of hope.I will step forward with the truth before me and will no longer look on the day that is gone.The past is over the future has begun.

The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness sufferings and failures.

Mortals were such fickle creatures. They called into the dark demanded answers and attention from forces they could not comprehend and yet when they had that attention and those answers they complained about them.

One of the greatest gifts to give our friends and others is a prayer.