Maintain an ongoing awareness of God throughout the day.
One way to gather your thoughts easily during prayer and keep them more peaceful is to avoid letting them wander too far at other times. Maintain an ongoing awareness of God's presence; getting used to thinking of Him often will make it easier for you to calm your mind during prayer, or at least to bring it back from its wanderings.
Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy—dwell on these things. Do what you have learned and received and heard from me, and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
How does an ongoing awareness of God's presence help me have focused prayer times?
What is beautiful and praiseworthy about God?
Scripture quotations are from the Christian Standard Bible®, © 2017 Holman Bible Publishers.
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