Sine Intermissione Orate

I like my iPhone… still rockin the 3GS right now.

Gonna upgrade to the iPhone 4 someday.

People love to hate on AT&T, saying things like: “terrible service, dropped calls, no signal.”

‘Cause I’ve always been with AT&T, I really don’t know what the service is like with other providers.

I just know my signal strength isn’t always reliable.

Sometimes, the signal cuts out.

It drops, breaks, ceases to be connected, stops, takes an intermission.

Unfortunately, many of us pray like we have AT&T service… intermittent, with breaks, stops, disconnected.

Here’s the good news: grace changes that.

Through grace, we understand prayer isn’t an activity or event – it’s a constant, open flow of communication with our Heavenly Father.

Expressions like: “prayer time,” “say your prayers,” “recite a prayer” or “give a prayer” just reinforce this misguided concept of prayer as an on-and-off again activity.

Grace reminds us that God’s Spirit lives within us – unceasingly, without intermission, full signal, no break in the connection, all the time!

1 Thessalonians 5.17 says, “Never stop praying.”

I love the way this verse reads in the Latin Vulgate: SINE INTERMISSIONE ORATE (pray without intermission).

There’s no break in the connection, so keep the conversation going.

Never stop talking with God.

Pray without intermission.

Sine intermissione orate.