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Bookmark or Share- Seven Steps to Strengthen Prayer - Desiring GodPreparing to Pray. 1. Set prayer apart. The more we pray, the more we want to pray. To do this, you need to build it into the rhythm of your day any way you can: set alarms, leave notes, put it in your day planner. Prayer is a practice that requires discipline and perseverance, and we should own the cost. Prayer is the greatest act of our day ...
- How Do I Pray Without Ceasing? - Desiring GodThat is basically what I think he means by “pray without ceasing” — repeatedly and often. 3. Staying Steadfast. The third thing I think he means is this: not giving up on prayer. “Without ceasing” means you should never come to a point in your life when you say, “Prayer doesn’t work. I am done.
- Prayer - Desiring GodStudy the Lord’s Prayer. In five short verses, Jesus himself taught us how to pray. Transforming glories can be seen in these most familiar words of “The Lord’s Prayer” if we will slow down enough to see them. In this series of three labs, John Piper puts the text on the screen and helps you mine more for your prayers. Look at the Book.
- A Simple Way to Pray Every Day - Desiring GodHow to Pray as Jesus Taught Us. First, Luther recommends simply to pray through the prayer once, as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 6:9–13). He then says to go back through the prayer and pray each petition individually: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
- Prayer for Beginners - Desiring GodDon’t be afraid to pray big prayers, and small ones. 7. Be willing to ask one more time. Jesus knew we would lose heart in prayer, specifically that we would pray for things for long enough that we would start to question if God was listening or might ever answer. But he didn’t want us to lose heart or give up.
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