Wow it’s been almost a year since I’ve updated this blog! Need to do it more often. Anyways here is my experience today with God using a joke to really get my attention:

What started as a joke today at work, God used to slap me in the face! Had a teacher friend quote the following scripture talking about Jesus and how He wanted his disciples to stay awake and pray right before He was captured. How many of y’all are convicted (as well as me) because of these scriptures?

“He came back and found his disciples sleeping. So he said to Peter, ‘Can’t any of you stay awake with me for just one hour? Stay awake and pray that you won’t be tested. You want to do what is right but you are weak.'” Matthew 26:40-41

How many times have you stayed up an extra hour at night and just prayed? Have you even prayed for one hour? Can you stay awake spiritually with Jesus for even ONE hour? Yeah…these are questions I’ve asked myself as well, and I wonder why I don’t have things completely right in my life. It’s simple…I don’t pray enough!! How can God truly move in our lives if we don’t talk and ask Him??

I’ll use my friend Jimmy Newby as an example. If I wanted Jimmy to move into my house, he’s not just gonna walk in and say “What’s up roomie?” No, I have to talk to him and ask him to move in before he will. I’ll ask it again, how can God truly move if we don’t talk and ask Him??? Can we even stay in conversation with Him for even ONE hour? Here’s what prayer is about: it’s talking with God. Just Him and you. So friends, as I sit here convicted tonight all over two verses, I feel God wants me to ask you these questions as well.

Is life falling apart? Talk to Him more often. Are things with your home life too much to bear? Talk to Him more often! Is life going really awesome and can’t ask for anything better? Talk to Him more often!! God wants to hear from you. Desperately. We all need to be spiritually awake and keep in touch with God more often. Period.