How much worth can you assign to ten minutes of prayer? What is the cost/profit margin for five minutes of prayer? Is there a down side to two minutes of prayer? What if you were to pray for a minute? Could you see a risk in praying a minute? At what point do you cross into the debit side of the ledger when you begin praying? At the dinner table, thirty seconds of praying becomes an eternity and cause for under the breath cursing. Forty-five seconds may be a stretch as you lie in bed moments before falling asleep. Fifty seconds of praying could make you an extremist for church gatherings. Are a nod and a wink at God enough to make good on your commitment to follow Him?
Every one of us has a pain threshold at which we have prayed too long and with too much passion. Few of us would consider ourselves “Prayer warriors” and yet few Christians think they aren’t doing a pretty good job following Jesus. Most of the Psalms are prayers that were set to music. In them we find the most profound human misery and heights of theocentric joy. What if we took a week and prayed a Psalm each morning and evening, using them as a starting point for adding our own concerns? Would it hurt too much to stay in the arms of Jesus a bit longer this one week? Could we bear to give God an additional minute each day and stretch out our joy and peace? Do we have time for a miracle this week?
