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So today I want to try something new in
getting my thoughts onto paper for my

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blog.

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So I'm gonna be building a little
minecraft water fountain.

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What I plan to about today is making time
for prayer because in my life I have a

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very busy January coming up

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and I am talking about this as much for me
as for anybody who might be listening

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ever since I

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wrote about prayer and the importance of
reading the Bible.

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I've kind of felt like I was not
practicing what I preach given that I

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talked about wanting to start the father
Bible in a year reading plan back multiple

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years back a year and a half ago and yeah
I haven't finished reading I haven't

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finished listening to that in fact my
uncle started listening to the Bible

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podcast and I think it's probably so so
that kind of kind of sucks to not be

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praying only trouble is my life is pretty
busy it's almost the holidays and then I'm

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moving so

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that's a man to pray but doesn't in some
ways but doesn't want to break and that's

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what I want to talk about is how to pray
not how to pray because I'm no expert in

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that but maybe more how to make time to
pray and the only answer I can think of is

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that the only answer I can think of is
that prayer is important and is talking

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with God and all of that but it's also
happens you have to in my blog post about

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how I was kind of giving up on the naive
method of prayer which is I'm just gonna

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read the Bible and then I'll be good and
no it's it's that I see the value in

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intentional prayer even though I struggle
with it you know I struggle to make time

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for that

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and talking and at the same time it's
difficult so

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yeah prayer

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my best idea although certainly haven't
you could say implemented this yet is to

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to treat and what's the best way make a
new I think it's pretty sure it's to

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bundle it with an existing habit and for
me the existing habit is well obviously

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it's another prayer related habit back in
2023 I went to a CCO rise up conference

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and this conference but it ended with Paul
kind of a challenge they called it the

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2033 challenge the idea being if Jesus's
ministry here on earth started that Jesus

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would have been 33 when he was crucified
so 2000 years since his crucifixion that

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would take us to the year 2033 so since
then for the better part of well in a

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couple weeks it'll be for two years I've
had an alarm on my watch 8 33 p.m.

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and every 8 33 p.m.

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for two years I've had my watch start
beeping and when that watch goes off what

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I do is I make a incredibly brief prayer
of something along the lines of father

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let your kingdom come on earth as in
heaven come Holy Spirit and some days

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that's the only praying I do that day
obviously more praying is better but I'll

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take so I think what I want to do is to do
that meditative prayer at 2033 but make it

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more than just a kind of prayer one-liner
and actually do some praying then again

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when life gets busy prayer is pretty much
the easiest thing to the wayside and

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that's not a that's not a good thing but I
guess it is a human thing

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I think that might be all that I have to
say I'll have to find a quote

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the context is that when I kind of
announced that I was going to be the way I

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titled my blog post about changing the way
I prayed was a little bit provocative and

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possibly led Ray to possibly was a
contributing factor towards Ray shutting

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down his blog but I forget where I was
going

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