A Time, A Place, A List
Praying must be learned, here are three tools to help get started
The activity of praying is common, but it is not natural to us. It's not like eating, breathing or sleeping - it is activity that must be learned, and practiced.
Here are a few prayer helps that may make it easier to get started and stick to it:
Have a time for prayer - make it a part of your schedule. We all have routine, for getting going in the morning, to paying our bills. Putting it on a schedule will not leave it to chance that we'll pray if we get time. We must make time.
Have a place - make a certain location designated for prayer. Be it a certain room or under a tree in the park or even a chair at home, have a place where you can frequent at your designated time.
Have a list - an agenda, if you will, or a plan. Having an agenda gives you a place to start, a purpose you are after for when and where you pray. Leaving it to pray as you feel like it will most often mean you pray randomly and rambling. You wouldn't go to your employer or a client and ramble on - so when you approach our Father, don't babble.
These three tools are crucial to a consistent time of fervent prayer and intercession. If we wait until we feel like praying, and don't know what we are praying, our prayer life will grow stale.
It's much like starting an exercise routine: Set a time, go to a place and have a plan.
But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who [is] in the secret [place]; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. Mat 6:6 NKJV
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. Luke 6:12 ESV
Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. Act 3:1 ESV
And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer...Act 16:13 ESV
Pray For The People Of God From The Word Of God
Here are three passages we are praying from this week (one passage per day):
Monday - Luke 17:5 (Faith)
Tuesday - Romans 15:13 (Hope)
Wednesday - John 17:26 (Love)
Will you join me in praying these verses, and ask one person to join you?
Until Thursday, grace and peace…
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