Jeremiah Tipton explains why your body tenses and your mind wanders when you try to pray. The flesh panics because prayer threatens its control over you, so it fights back with distraction and resistance. He says you have to grab it by the neck and force it to submit.
You ever notice that when you first start trying to pray, even your body kind of feels tense and you start looking for distraction, for entertainment? Your mind starts wandering off into responsibilities and problems and concerns and questions and doubts. Why? Because that's your flesh panicking. Your flesh is panicking because when you subject that flesh and say you're going to pray, that flesh starts to lose its grip. You're killing the other you. That's why it fights you. That's why when you go to pray, your mind suddenly starts reacting because the flesh is screaming, get me out of here! And you need to grab that other you by the neck and say, listen here, me, we're gonna pray today and you're gonna lose your power.
