LUNCH TIME IS NOT HUNGER TIME.

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One day Peter and John were going up to
the temple at the time of prayer—
at three in the afternoon. Acts 3:1-16 (NIV)

One healthy way to operate is to live ensuring that lunch time is not necessarily hunger time. When your time is determined by how hungry you are; it means you can actually skip lunch, if you are not hungry. When however you realize that lunch time is not necessarily hunger time; it doesn’t matter whether you are hungry or not, it doesn’t matter how busy you are, you will take out time to have lunch.

This is a much better way to live and it makes for healthy living. This same assertion is true spiritually; you don’t have to wait to have a burden to pray, before you pray. In our text passage; we see how Peter and John headed for the temple to pray at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. It wasn’t necessarily because they had a burden to pray; but, because it was the ninth hour, being the hour of prayer.

Having a burden to pray could be really wonderful; but, if you want to be unburdened before you pray, it means you could actually go on for sometimes without praying.

Having set times of prayer and sticking to it is a healthy spiritual approach any day. It helps you keep alert spiritually. It is not really a matter of whether or not you feel like praying; as long as it is prayer time, everything about you gets set for prayer and you just have to pray.

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You must not allow your schedule determine when you pray. If you hinge it on your schedule; you can be very sure that the enemy will ensure that you are too busy to pray. The psalmist in psalm 55:17, made his schedule clear – “Evening and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud; and he shall hear my voice.”

• Do you have a prayer schedule?

The same goes for the study of God’s word and your fellowship with other believers. It doesn’t have to be when you feel like; it has to be a way of living and it should be done because it is the time for it to be done.

Apostle Paul got to Thessalonica and located a synagogue and “as his manner was, Went in unto them, and three days reasoned with them out of the scriptures” {acts 17:2}. When it becomes a lifestyle to keep up with the vibrant spiritual principals; life becomes fulfilling.