At the worship service I attended yesterday the preacher was in the middle of a sermon series on spiritual disciplines. The topic of the day was prayer. At one point, he said something along the lines of “we should pray in the morning, we should pray in the evening, we should pray at meals…”  When he said that, I had a silly thought. I was reminded of a song made popular by the McGuire sisters the year I was born, Sugartime.

Sugar in the mornin’
Sugar in the evenin’
Sugar at suppertime
Be my little sugar
And love me all the time

Honey in the mornin’
Honey in the evenin’
Honey at suppertime
So be my little honey
And love me all the time

1 Thessalonians 5:17 pray continually

That little love song might be a reminder to talk to our heavenly Father regularly.

Prayin’ in the mornin’
Prayin’ in the evenin’
Prayin’ at suppertime.
Talk to God the Father
Who loves you all the time.

We have the awesome privilege of being able to speak to the one in control of everything with the assurance that He hears and listens to us for Jesus’ sake. He has shown His tremendous love to us by giving His one and only Son to be our Savior and pay for the sins of the world, so that everyone who believes in Him does not hae to perish but can have eternal life. Jesus earned that for everyone, and all who trust His promise receive the benefit of what He did.

In addition, we know He is listening.

1 John 5:14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

Matthew 21:22 “If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”