Soaked in prayer

A few posts ago, I mentioned that I had experienced a truly horrific few days in school, with a level of indiscipline that I had never experienced before. It was just last week that I suddenly became aware of the root of the problem!
In August, we moved into a new building and, obviously, I got a new room. Now, in my "old" room I had a base that I had built in one corner and, for some fifteen years, I had been using that base for my daily personal devotions that I mentioned in the previous post. The new room didn't really lend itself to that - no "secret place"; a corridor right outside; and overlooking the main road.
However, I suddenly realised that it was also a room that was "spiritually sterile". My previous room had been soaked in prayer, and in the audible reading of the Word of God, for all those years. This room had nothing.
On Monday I used the room, for my devotions, for the first time. It's amazing how one can arrange things when one has the will to do so. An old computer trolley in the far corner, with a wee lamp that I took in from home, and a file-box to hold my Bible, "The Word for Today" (available, free of charge, from UCB - see My Favourite Links), and whatever else I am using to help - together with a pen and a highlighter, and I have a set-up that has proved to be quite conducive to meeting with Father God.
Perhaps it's a lack in my own faith level, but I don't expect instantaneous results. However, I am in no doubt at all that, given a little time, the very atmosphere in that room will be positively changed. I'll try to remember to report in a future post!!
Let us never underestimate the power of the prayer-soaked place, and the praying saint. (James 5:16 [b]).