Introduction

What do you think about when you hear the word prayer? Something boring? Many find praying to be routine and liturgy, something boring we have to do just because we are Christians. But do we have to pray? I don’t think God says we have to do it. He definitely doesn’t force us, but he has a great wish for us that we should pray. When we pray Christian life becomes exciting to live, and we are able to develop a friendship with the living God, our Creator.
Prayer is everything but boring. Sometimes it feels like work, but God never meant it to be boring. We can make it boring, but God isn’t boring.
The most fantastic and exciting a man can experience it to enjoy the living God’s presence. That’s the reason why prayer is not boring.
Prayer is two-way communication. Maybe you haven’t discovered this before, or thought about it? If this is the case, it might be the reason why you find praying boring. Talking to an active person is what it is all about. A person who loves you, with a huge craving for contact and fellowship with you.

Before I was baptized in The Holy Spirit during the summer of 1989, I experienced praying as something force upon me as a Christian. I experience little, if any, joy about praying. One of the reasons was probably my fairly negative focused prayers, and the fact that I felt it was something I had to do. I always prayed a small prayer before I went to bed. Sometimes I forgot to pray, and if I woke up in the middle of the night remembering that I had forgotten it, I hurried to pray just a little tiny prayer before I could go to sleep again. I do not think this is God’s design for a prayer life, which is something I have personally experienced.

My aim with this teaching is to give you some advise about how you can experience a prayer life which is far from boring and dry.

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