The 1 hr prayer

If you could pray for 1 hr everyday for 7 days, your life could be really different.
Prayer is the key to Christian power. Without prayer, a Christian is really powerless. Without prayer, man is infact disconnected from God. True prayer is made possible when the Holy Spirit resides in us. When we pray with him, our souls become alive.

It is impossible to do a great work for God without prayer. A good example is Jesus Christ who before the beginning of his ministry, after baptism, went into the desert in other to be fortified with prayer. The task before his was huge, it was a fight to save mankind- all the sons of Adam, and he couldn't do this without connecting heaven and earth and this he did by prayer.

At times prayer can be hard, at times it requires mortification. In fact the more someone spends in prayer the more mortified the body becomes because prayer even makes you forget you have need of material things like food. Prayer fills you with heavenly food that seems to make your earthly food almost non-important. So Jesus was in the desert with unclean animals but it was a quiet place, a place where prayer has little distractions.

When we want to have an effective prayer, we need to cut off all distractions. If we find it almost impossible to pray because of the people we live with, then one good way of avoiding distractions from people is by telling them you want to pray or by taking a physical form of prayer like kneeling down and closing our eyes while we pray to God, even in silence. Your neighbours will understand that you are praying and will not disturb you.

Modern day Christians seem to have been withered down when it comes to prayer and that's why we are not as active Christians as our fathers were. Nowadays, the average Christian only spend about 15 mins a day while some never pray except at church.

Does it really matter how much time one spends with God in prayer? Well yes it does because the more time you spend in prayer, the more great things God will do through you.

Try and take the experiment to spend at least 1 hr a day in prayer. You'd be surprised when you realize that you even want to spend more time than that.

One tip for praying long prayers is by not exerting too much physical strain on your body. You can pray silently rather than loudly. You can pray sitting rather than kneeling. You can even stand if you like. You can also pray lying down.

Try to talk to God and don't rush it. Say what you mean, mean what you say and even listening to God is prayer.