Establishing your prayer life
I'm always stressing to my church the importance of developing our own personal spiritual system. We must let our prayer life progress from a desire to a discipline then eventually to a internal source of delight.
I would like to suggest 12 simple steps to take to begin your journey as a man or women of prayer.
I pray that you will decide right now to make prayer a major part of your life.
Let prayer be like your steering wheel as opposed to your spare wheel.
I would like to suggest 12 simple steps to take to begin your journey as a man or women of prayer.
- Purchase some music that would set the atmospher for prayer. I suggest you go on Itunes and purchase songs from Eddie Zepeda, Israel Houghton, Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, Chris Tomlin albums
- Create a worship playlist and a praise playlist that last 30 minutes each
- Put on the worship playlist and spend the first 5 minutes reading a chapter from Psalms or chapter from proverbs (you can read the chapter that coincides with the date)
- Then pray using the A.C.T.S model
- Adoration-Spend 5 minutes praising and worshiping God...You can read lyrics from classic Christian hymns and songs to get you started
- Confession- Spend 5 Minutes confessing your sins before God. This helps us realign our heart and prevent sin from hindering our relationship with God (remember relationship not religion is the key)
- Thanksgiving- Spend 5 minutes Thanking God for blessing.You can list them on a journal if you choose.The attitude of gratitude raises our spiritual altitude
- Supplication- Spend the next 5 minutes praying for the needs of your family, friends and yourself
- Meditation- Spend 5 minutes in silence listening to your favorite Worship song and meditate on the words.
- Preparation- Switch the song selection to your praise playlist and spend a few minutes writing your to-do, to-stop and to-be list and prepare for the rest of your day listening to praise music.
- Occupation/Education- Go to work or school or whatever and 'be the light of the world'
- Turbo prayer- Set your Cell phone to alarm you at 2:58pm and spend 3 minutes at 3pm for 3 people who need it.
I pray that you will decide right now to make prayer a major part of your life.
Let prayer be like your steering wheel as opposed to your spare wheel.
Been hearing great things about your blog...Pastor Patrick & Pastor Al quote you a lot...so I just had to check out what was being posted. Great stuff. Can't wait to read more! Keep being an example for the GANG!
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