What exactly is five minutes? Well, it's 200 seconds or 1/12th of an hour. It fits into a day 288 times. Five minutes is not a significant amount of time at all. Can you do anything with it? Fact is, you could probably throw it away without even missing it. Quite often, we do.
You could delete all your daily junk email in less than that mount of time… unless, of course, you choose to read it. Then it might take 30 minutes to get through it all. If it's really good, you could print it out and post it for others to see. That's another 10 minutes right there. After all, someone did spend the time to write those clever “jokes of the day” and “things to think about.” Hold the DSL! Some of them have to be forwarded to your own contact list of 100 or so people. You can't just keep it all to yourself. No, email and junk mail can't really be handled in just five minutes.
What about TV channel surfing? Is it plausible to analyze all of your entertainment options in just five minutes? Even though Channel 42 is airing the best five episodes of “Alf” back to back, you can't be sure that it is your best option. What if Channel 87 is showing “Jaws 3 in 3d?” Granted, you might miss out on the first “Best of Alf” episode, but your really must get through all 300 channels in order to make a s wise decision. It might take you 30 minutes to achieve that. Deciding on what to watch is definately not a 5–minute job.
Okay, emails and channel surfing aside, life can get very busy. Maybe, you feel like you don't have five minutes to spare. Well, instead of getting up at 7am tomorrow, you could try 6:55am and do something with those extra five minutes… that is, if the Lord gives it to you. “…He Himself gives to all life and breath and all things…” (Acts 17:25)
So, take a minute and thank Him for giving you time. While you're at it, take two more, confess your sins, and seek His forgiveness. Squeeze another minute in to praise Him for even offering you the option to find forgiveness. Then, if you can use a litte help with your daily decision–making, ask Him for guidance. It might take another minute, bit He'd love to help you. “The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.” (Psalm 145:18) He never meant for you to do it all alone.
Now, that's five minutes.
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Rejoice Always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. — 1 Thess. 5:16-18
If you want to see how close to God you are, see how long it takes you to hit your knees. — C. S. Lewis
The Spirit Himself, who helps us to pray, inspired the prayers that are recorded in the Psalms, I read intercession and I read supplication, but overwhelmingly what I read is a preoccupation with adoration, with thanksgiving, and with confession. Take those elements of prayer, and what happens to a person who learns how to adore God? That person is changed. — R. C. Sproul
We are to ask and keep on asking for those things that make us more like Jesus. We are to seek and keep on seeking. We are to knock and keep on knocking. Perseverance is the key to God's treasure… — R. Kent Hughes
5 minutes of prayer per day = 30.15 hours of prayer per year.