Reading God’s Word every day is good. When we do this, God can fill our mind with truth. It is important to have in our memory a record of God’s great promises and faithfulness. Do not neglect submitting your mind to God for a time each day; because truth, when applied, can help correct us when we are in error; call us back from the brink of despair; or keep us from compounding our mistakes.
Prayer, though, is how we submit our heart. The heart is where Christ dwells, where the Holy Spirit speaks, where God measures our every motive. No amount of head knowledge can absolve a man from refusing to give his heart to God. So, pray continually. Let God have time with your heart each morning, all throughout your day, and again each night.
After all, the heart is His creation. People don’t really know what to do with it anyway. Proverbs 4:23 tells us the best thing we can do with it is guard it. Genesis 8:21 tells us “every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood” but in Ezekiel 36:26, God promises to provide us a new heart. All we have to do is accept His covenant through Jesus and submit our heart. Only through prayer is this possible. We are saved by prayer, we are strengthened by prayer, and we are sanctified by prayer. Do not underestimate its power or importance.