National Day of Prayer

Just as sure as we are in the Information Age, so are we in the Communication Age. Individuals, families, and organizations are as linked together as they ever have been. The information flow is like a torrential flood on many wide rivers. Communication networks can be thought of as the river channels or canals over which information of all types is moving at unprecedented speeds and magnitudes. The average American citizen dedicates about 50 hours a week (2 whole days out of 7) in front of screens jam packed and multi-layered with information. Who can grasp it all? Who can keep up with it all? The human mind is overwhelmed, and the body staggers in info grid-lock. Add audio (radio) and print media (newspapers, magazines, newsletters, “junk” postal mail, etc.) to the video mix of TV, Internet, email, cell phones, land phones, Facebooks, Tweets, and Blogs, and one might contemplate America stalled in an information-motivated nervous breakdown. No wonder so many problems arise and stay in the growing national inventory of unsolved things. We have many people, but communication pace and volume affords little time to focus on any single problem or complex of problems. We have become our own busy signal on the thought train of sagacious problem-solving. Concentration has become an increasingly short-term experience. Attention span is turning into a mere blink of focus and comprehension.

Thanks be to God, there is an effective resolve to over-busyness and white-noise mental life of the Information Age and tangled hyper-communication streams. The answer actually is God, our Heavenly Father of thought life, Son of good and proper speaking and doing, and Holy Spirit of wholesome feelings comprehending the life we live. The Trinity of God, too often absent from the modern media mix, is the One simplifier & solver our minds and lives always can turn to. The Mind of God is infinite, unlimited by time. He knows all of history, you know some. He knows all of the present; again, you know some. He knows all the future, and you know none. If you are a Trinity Son, God the Father will happily give you answers you need about tomorrow through the instrumentality of PRAYER. You ask, He answers . . . faithfully, in the right amounts and right timing. Contrasting even more with mass communication is the assurance that God’s answers are composed in perfect LOVE . . . for you and others. The ads and apps, the speed of light electron-printing press is at best impersonal, cold, often exploitive. It is a very fast machine, never an eternally loving God who cares for you more than anything else in your world. Cut though the thick, confusing media wall surrounding and perplexing you using God’s Sword of the Spirit: The Word of God. Your prayer petitioning effectiveness rises exponentially when you take time each day to sample the Mind of God through reading the Holy Bible. You will know better what to ask for from a mind tailored to God’s way of thinking. Look up the following Prayer Keys in the Holy Scripture as a way of beginning or reviving a wonderful prayer life: Matthew:6.25-34, Matthew:7.7-8; John:15.7, James:1.5-6; James:1.17; 1 John:5.13-15.

To motivate personal Bible research and effective practice of prayer, you might also listen to a recent motivation music addition to gespst.com: “Operater.” My arrangement of this piece from the 1950s includes a Vision Statement to help you compose a mental picture message poignant for these phone-intense days. The song, “Operator” artistically uses the telephone as a metaphor for prayer. God’s Prayer Phone answers 27/7 and grants every right request. Add God’s Pray Anywhere flexibility to your media repertoire and you will find less and less dependency on (addiction to?) the world’s media chaos, more peace of mind and mental clarity. It is an eternal life line from Heaven especially for you.

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