Anchored Alignment Field Manual

Reality

•    I’m pulled in so many directions. My attention is fragmented.

•    I often move through entire parts of my day without awareness of God’s presence.

•    I’m frequently in a hurry. Screens, pressure and constant input is making a quiet prayer life seem impossible.

•    I treat prayer as a quick statement or request to God and often as a reaction or response to stress.

•    My nervous system becomes so activated that stillness feels uncomfortable and difficult.

•    I carry guilt because my prayer life isn’t as peaceful or steady as I’d like.

•    When life or situations are overwhelming, I tend to react quickly and stressfully rather than remain prayerfully grounded.

•    I think that I live in emotional intensity more than spiritual intimacy.

•    My mind often wanders during prayer and it’s discouraging.

•    Sometimes I feel disconnected from God though I still love Him.

•    There is part of me that desires to live in peace. There is another part of me that is attached to hurry and stimulation.

•    I have this expectation to live with a near perfect spiritual focus instead of simply returning to God over & over again.

 

Anchored Truth

•    “I don’t have to carry everything myself. I can hold people, concerns & situations prayerfully before God throughout my day.”

•    “Prayer is more than speaking, it’s a lifestyle of turning toward You.”

•    “Repetitive anxious reactions bear no fruit. I remain open to Your wisdom, timing and peace.”

•    “I can carry prayer within me like a small living flame.”

•    “Chaos can demand my attention but I choose to gently turn to You, Jesus.”

•    “The goal is not spiritual performance. The goal is communion.”

 

Scripture

Psalms 62:8 - Trust in Him at all times, you people; Pour out your hearts before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah 

Habakkuk 2:1 - I will stand at my guard post And station myself on the watchtower; And I will keep watch to see what He will say to me, And how I may reply when I am reprimanded. 

Psalms 141:2 - May my prayer be counted as incense before You; The raising of my hands as the evening offering. 

Revelation 5:8 - When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 

Psalms 46:10 - Stop striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted on the earth.

Lamentations 3:26 - It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the LORD. 

Psalms 131:2 - I have certainly soothed and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child resting against his mother, My soul within me is like a weaned child. 

Luke 2:19 - But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart. 

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 - Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. 

John 15:4 - Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. 

Colossians 3:2 - Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth. 

Isaiah 30:15 - For this is what the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength.”