I Should Pray …

Do you ever find yourself seeing something or hearing something and being like, ‘Oh yeah I’ll pray about that,’ or ‘I should pray about that.’ Whatever it is that you think to yourself in your head, it’s almost like that means it’s a prayer. But it’s not. You keep going about your life or living in that moment but don’t physically stop to intentionally pray.

& I DON’T mean to imply YOU. I’m generalizing probably to make myself feel better. I could be alone in this. … Maybe I’m justifying these like little half thought, throw up prayers to check them off a list instead of intentionally turning them over to His mercy and grace? But either way, outside of my nightly ‘BIG’ prayer or my before meals prayers, I’m not really pausing my day to truly talk to God in conversation. I’m throwing one liners up there - but I’m leaving no time for it to be a two sided conversation.

& Honestly … I do this more times than I care to admit. 

What I’ve noticed is there are a couple women in my circle who immediately are like, “Yeah! Let’s pray!” & I mean this can be mid phone conversation, mid texting, mid in person conversation, … whatever it may be they immediately stop and pray. 

INTENTIONALLY.

& What I’ve noticed past this … is God is convicting me.

I’m over here battling my mind to stop running and thinking about 1 million things a minute to try and pray, and these women are out here just stopping in the middle of the grocery store and saying a prayer. 

BOLDLY.

They don’t care what they are in the middle of, who is around, who is listening (other than God)… they just go right to it. Like God on speed-dial.

This past week at Bible study, we talked about envy. And typically I would say envy is a bad thing, which was pretty much a consensus. But I ENVY their prayer life. & I think envy can be a good thing as long as it is encouraging you to do better or to obtain whatever it is your envious of. Maybe envy isn’t even the right word. Maybe it’s inspired, or longing, or jealous.

Either way… I am CONVICTED to BOLDLY and INTENTIONALLY pray like them.

After all, that’s what we’re supposed to do. We’re supposed to openly have this line of communication with God where every day we can just say, ‘Dear Lord, I pray for this woman in the car beside me, because she is looking at me talk to texting this blog right now and just scouring. right?!’ … I’m mean that’s an oddly specific example, but you get the idea. We are supposed to have a line of communication where dialing in for a prayer is second nature, it’s natural, it’s habit.

Prayer is our most powerful gift.

It’s a moment to say anything and everything you need to the father whenever it suits. 

Going into 2026 we did a non-date planner through the book of Psalms because I specifically wanted to focus on my prayer life this year. I want to have an intentional and bold line of communication with the Father and the Psalms are such a great example of that. One thing I noticed in talking about the Bible every day on our podcast in 2025 was there are so many different relationships that we can have with God.

I want my relationship with God to look like prayer first and praise second.

I wanna live a life where my line of communication to our father is open all the time, and I am living in a state of worship because even through there are bad moments, there are so many blessings that I have to be thankful for. 

So my challenge today is instead of saying or thinking, ‘oh I should pray for that,’ let’s just stop and pray instead.

Be Bold. Be Intentional. Be Direct.

And for the women in my life who are reading this that just actively pray with me whenever I mention something, just know that those active prayers are guiding me closer to the cross. That is bold leadership - Leadership to push people closer to God and grow His kingdom. I am so thankful to have each of you in my life.  

God’s Love and Mine,

Christina