How to Create a Prayer Routine: Building Your Prayer Closet
Many women long for a deeper prayer life but feel unsure where to begin. Prayer can seem intimidating, inconsistent, or reserved for people who “have it all together.” But prayer was never meant to be complicated. It was meant to be relational.
In the language of the Discipleship House, prayer begins in the Prayer Closet. This is the inner room of the house, the place where we step away from noise, striving, and performance to simply meet with God.
The Ecclesiastic King
Inside a little blue-gray bungalow on Alexander Street in Clay Center, Nebraska, around 1986 or so, Ann read her daughter the story of King Solomon in 1 Kings 3:1-15 when he asked God for wisdom. She read, starting in verse 5, while her daughter sat in her pajamas, holding her favorite stuffed polar bear.
“In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, “Ask what you wish Me to give you.”
Solomon’s Prayer
6 Then Solomon said, “You have shown great faithfulness to Your servant David my father, according as he walked before You in truth, righteousness, and uprightness of heart toward You; and You have reserved for him this great faithfulness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it isthis day. 7