If you will recall from the previous post, lesson number one was this:

Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray.

Here is lesson number two from D. A. Carson in his book A Call to Spiritual Reformation:

Adopt practical ways to impede mental drift.

Is this guy reading my mail or what?

Among the helps he suggests in this section of the first chapter are to vocalize your prayers, pray over the Scriptures, pray through the worship sections of better hymnals, pray through the segments of the Lord’s prayer, uses lists, and journal.

Class is in session. May we get high grades in Jesus’ school of prayer.