Exercise 1: Arrow Prayers

Some of the easiest and shortest prayers are known as arrow prayers.  These are often single or two word prayers such as help, run, now, hold me, move and no.   

“Once I was driving on the interstate exiting on a straight ramp.  I was under a spell known as road hypnosis. Thinking I was pressing the brake, it took a moment to realize that the car was not slowing down.  Pressing the brake harder, I shouted STOP and a second later shouted GOD.  The next several seconds were surreal as I went across four lanes of on-coming traffic, spun-out, and stopped backwards on the gravel shoulder looking down a 200 foot drop to the rocks below.  God saved me in two simple words; He intervened and then stopped the car.  

There are many experiences like this and millions of small daily happenings where we invoke a prayer to God by expressing a word or two.  Words do not need to be long winded and full of puffery to be effective.  God knows the desire of your heart if you are trying.  He can also tell the difference between trying and lazy.  One thing you may want to ask for is discernment regarding the difference.  Can you think of a time when you have invoked an arrow prayer?  Think of a time when you used words such as: help me, heal me, believe me, help now, see me, hold it, yes, or not now.