Concentration in prayer

Concentration in prayer
Francis of Sales as  Bishop of Geneva attended his parishes. He often went on horseback. He met many people on his travels. He once met a farmer who told him he could pray intently. Francis says to him: If you pray for our Father, I will give you this horse. The peasant began: Our Father, who art in heaven, sanctify thy name. And I get that horse with or without a saddle. Neither with the saddle nor without the saddle because you cannot pray intently. We are very much characterized by this event, which happened several centuries ago. How distracted by the things of everyday life. It is a problem for us to concentrate on prayer. Hundreds of things divert us from our concentration in prayer. So we long to focus on prayer. We often confess. I prayed out of focus. How do we do this so that we can concentrate on prayer? Often people ask. Is it possible to pray everywhere? The answer is. Yes. You can pray in a means of transport, in nature. However, we need to isolate ourselves from the outside world. Prayer is a moment of quiet rest. In the beginning, we should be aware of. I’m going to talk to God. The first thing to do is to ask the Holy Spirit for help. We read at St. Paul’s. We don’t even know what to pray for. But the Holy Spirit comes to help the weak. And elsewhere, we read his words. No one can say that he is the Lord unless he is in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit prays in us. The very fact that we want to pray is proof that the Holy Spirit leads us to pray. In prayer, the flood of words is not relevant, but the focus on God. It is not a matter of postponing our worries. It cannot be. In prayer, we must focus on God, not our problems. Put God first. If someone came to Jesus with his request, Jesus did not reject him, only in one case when one person asked him to be a judge between him and his brother. We should pass on our problems to the Lord. In prayer, it is not our important worship, but our devotion to God. In prayer, we should be aware of the presence of God, but also of God’s greatness and infinity. Someone said. If God comes first, everything is in the right place.