Ordering our Prayer

Psalms 5:3 (NASB)

³In the morning, O LORD, You will hear my voice;

In the morning I will order my prayer to You and eagerly watch.

It takes discipline to pray.  Prayer, for sure, is a spiritual act.  It is a working of the Holy Spirit in our hearts, moving us to express our desire for fellowship with God, with whom we have access through Jesus Christ, and also an expression of dependence upon our Lord when we have needs, problems, etc.  And, of course, it is an expression of thanksgiving and worship.  All of this happening in our hearts, our inner being.
But it takes discipline.  Our flesh would rather do something else.  Our flesh does not see the importance and essence of the spiritual realm, our fellowship and dependence on God.  And so our flesh usualy leads us to what it believes to be more important than prayer - household chores, taking care of family members, work or business, studies, and other things.
But we need to discipline ourselves to pray.

This is what the psalmist said in the verse above...In the morning I will ORDER my prayer to You, and eagerly watch.  To "order" in Hebrew means "to arrange, or set in order".  One of the things this word has in mind is the formation of soldiers when they are going to war.  They are formed, or set in order, in a way to gain victory.
It's the same with prayer.  We need to arrange our schedules so that we put prayer as a priority.  Notice the psalmist saying that he ordered his prayer IN THE MORNING.  The Hebrew word is actually "DAWN".  First thing in the morning.
First things first.  Some of us may not be able to wake up at dawn to pray, and others may even have to do some important chores at the beginning of the day.  But in our hearts prayer is arranged that it is in the top priority.

If we put a premium on our relationship with God, if we know that our priority in life must be our heart, our spiritual state, then we will arrange prayer in the most important part of the day.  Again, It may not necessarily be the first thing that we do...but we arrange our day understanding that we won't last a day without our fellowship and expression of worship and dependence upon God.