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Take the kids to school. Get to work. Go to the gym. Take kids to soccer practice. Walk the dog. Cook dinner. Do laundry. Make the kids’ lunches. Help them with homework. Sleep. Repeat.

We’re all busy. Well, maybe not all of us… but as humans, the majority of us strive to survive and we want the best for ourselves and our families. We know as Christians that our relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important relationship that we can have. To ask it simply, how much time do you invest in God on a regular basis?

Have you ever heard something as simple as one sentence or one question and had it make a huge impact on your perspective of something? You know when someone does a card trick and you are completely mystified by it until they finally show you how it’s done? Like that “Ah hah!” moment? That happened to me recently when my Sunday School leader asked us something about the impact of prayer. I’m paraphrasing a little, but this was how it went…

He asked, “Think about the prayers that you usually pray. Who would be most affected by your prayers? The poor? The sick? The unreached?’