In Your Prayer Life

What changes need to be made in your prayer life? How can you make worship a higher priority? Pray from your heart. With reverance.

We can never pray too much if your prayers are honest and sincere. Before you start to pray, make sure you mean what you say. It is not wrong to come to God many times with the same requests - Jesus encourages persistent prayers! But he condemns the shallow repetition of words that are not offered with a sincere heart.

Jesus said to his disciples -

When you pray, say:
Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.

Notice the order in this prayer. First, Jesus praised God then he made his requests. Praising God first put us in the right frame of mind to tell him about our needs. He made forgiveness the cornerstone of their relationship with God. God has forgiven our sins, we must now forgive those who have wronged us. Persistence in prayer overcomes our insensitivy, not God's. To practice persistence does more to change our hearts and minds than his and it helps us understand and express the intensity of our need. Persistence in prayer helps us recognize God's work.

Pray at home first. Make sure you are spending quality time alone with God daily in your own personal time of worship, prayer and fasting.. Do not allow the Church Prayer Meeting times to be your only time of prayer. Jesus warned us many times about those who love to stand before men and let their prayers be heard. Jesus called them hypocrites.

Enter the prayer room with good thoughts. Words of encouragements. Hope. Faith. Build up each other. Grumbling and complaining can set a bad tone.

Less Talking, More Praying. A prayer gathering is just a time to join together and pray. We have come together in a group to pray. Shared a few God stories filled with thanksgiving and praises. We enter the prayer's room with worship. Thanksgiving and praises. We cannot rush into the room waving our list of requests.

Allow the Holy Spirit to lead. Learn to listen. Learn to ask God to show you what to pray for.

Pray short and sweet. Most recorded prayers of Jesus were very short. If you pray many topics at once, it makes it difficult for others to focus your prayers. That way everyone has a chance to pray along with you.

Simple prayers are fine. Jesus taught us to come to God as little children. God knows our hearts. He wants us to talk to Him as a child would speak to his father.

Pray from your heart. With reverance.

Pray for God's will to be done. Not your will. Stay in His word.

Dear Lord,

I praise you that You are the God who hears and answer our prayers.Thank you that You long to be with us. Thank you for allowing us to come to You in prayer.

In Jesus name we pray,

Amen