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Prayer has always fascinated me although I have to admit I have not always been as prayerful as I need to be. It is a practice that many rely on only when they have come to the end of their lists.

Reading this week I came across a point of view of prayer that I had not seen before. In reading the book ?Chase The Lion? by Matt Batterson, he writes that the aramaic word for prayer is "slotha" and it carries the meaning, to set a trap.That is an interesting word picture. Prayer is more than just acknowledging God and sharing with Him our desires and needs. It is preparing the path before me to set out traps to capture the blessings and opportunities that are before me.

Through the act of prayer we are preparing our steps along our daily path to capture and experience each blessing God has, each turn of the path that comes before us, and each opportunity that is there along the way. Those things are trapped by God and are waiting for us in our journey.

God says, "I have come that you might have life, and have it to the full". Part of that means that there are blessings and opportunities He has placed on our daily path and we can only seize them or capture them through prayer.

What does God have for you? Time can only tell but one thing I know many of them can only be experienced when we pray.