When you try to pray and your mind floods with worries about work and money, that's your flesh fighting the stillness. Ground yourself in Scripture and worship to quiet the noise and hear God's voice instead.
How do you quiet that inner chaos? You ever notice that all day your mind can be perfectly clear, but the moment that you go to pray, suddenly there's all the chatter that begins to arise? Now you're worried about work and finances and relationship. What that is, it's your flesh fighting you, and it's trying to get out of the place of prayer. It's trying to get out of the place of stillness, because in that stillness is where the flesh dies. So it's fighting, and you say You say things like, wow, none of this distraction was here until I went to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. My friend, it's not that the distraction suddenly appeared when you tried to hear him. It's that you didn't realize it was there until you were quiet enough to hear him. And so that stillness that comes over you can only be found through the word, through worship, through focusing your attention on Jesus.
