How to pray- the steps of a disciplined prayer life
- The devil is our enemy. He will use every power he has to stop us from praying – especially in tongues, which is the only unselfish prayer we can utter.
- Plan your week ahead of time. Schedule time to pray in tongues whether it is one hour per week, 5 hours per week or 15 hours per week.
- Plan your place of prayer away from life’s distractions. We live in a quiet neighborhood with good sidewalks, so I walk and pray. Praying is good exercise for the soul as walking is for the body.
- If your schedule is as busy as mine pray for two hours straight on a Sunday afternoon. I’m almost 70 years old and have cut my work schedule to have energy to pray.
- If you are too tired to pray consider plugging into the source of energy – Jesus, our intercessor. St. Paul modeled an energetic prayer life and in Ephesians 6:18-20 stated “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.” In other words He prayed in the spirit continuously in order to preach boldly the gospel.
- Praying in tongues is like tithing. The more you pray, the more time you have to do what you enjoy like playing golf or spending time with the grandchildren.
- So as my spiritual father, Morris Means, would ask, Have you prayed? Regardless of the answer, his response was “Well, go pray some more!”
Dr Terry H Peters Chiropractor
04162008 originally generated on 05282007