Where's the best place to pray?

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Where's the best place to pray? Is it in the car? Is it in bed before you go to sleep at night? Is it at church? Jesus says, "But when you pray, go to your room, close the door, and pray to your father who's unseen." So, is that the only place to pray? I pray in my car. That's where I used to say I felt the closest to God. Is that wrong? When you look deeper into where Jesus prays, you'll see that sometimes he'll be traveling with his friends and then go off onto a mountain and pray. Before the whole cross sequence, he's praying in the middle of a garden. Or before a miracle, when one of his good friends, Lazarus, is dead and he's in front of all these people, he prayed out loud to God. So, we see a lot of instances of where Jesus prayed, giving us a hint that prayer isn't limited to where we are at. Yes, we can have our prayer closets, but I like to think of prayer as an ongoing conversation with God, like a text message thread, where I can text something to a friend at any time and I know at some point I'll get a response. I don't need to wait until I have 5 minutes to call somebody. I can be in the middle of something really hard and just say, "God, I need you. Help me with this. Give me peace. What do you want me to do here?" That can happen anywhere. And yes, I do have preferences of places to pray, where I can just get alone with God uninterrupted, put on some worship music, and feel like I'm having an in-depth conversation through the Holy Spirit, then also by reading God's words. What if it's not so much about a place, but more about how we are prioritizing God throughout our day? Are we bringing him into those big decisions? What about the little ones? I know some people might say, "I don't need to ask God what shirt I should wear." But would you be willing to? I think it's more of that posture. So, it's not about the place where we pray, more about the posture of prayer, realizing that God is with us everywhere. We don't need to wait to get to church to talk to him or until things get better. He's with us right now in the good and the bad times. That's the awesome thing about God. Let me know how I can be praying for you and have a blessed day.