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View Poll Results: HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU SPEND IN PRAYER EACH DAY?
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30 minutes or less
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38.10% |
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30 minutes to 1 hour
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28.57% |
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over 1 hour
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19.05% |
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I do not pray every day
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14.29% |
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05-27-2008, 10:44 AM
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Shaking the dust off my shoes.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Nunya bidness
Posts: 9,004
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Re: How much time do you spend in prayer?
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Originally Posted by stmatthew
59 views, and only 6 votes. Come on folks. No one can see how you vote. I believe this would be an eye opening statistic to show us where we are as a group.
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Eye opening in what sense, Matt?
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05-27-2008, 10:45 AM
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Administrator
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Mississippi
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Re: How much time do you spend in prayer?
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Originally Posted by stmatthew
Let me also state this. Though I understand God didn't mean watch the clock when he said to "watch and pray", the men who have been the mightiest for God have been men of much prayer. The fact that we spend less time in prayer than we do eating one meal a day says a lot about our priorities.
And you are correct, my intentions are not to condemn, but to challenge us to find more time to spend alone with God. Our spiritual life depends upon it.
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I agree..... and I'm doing much better with my prayer time lately.
When we don't spend enough time in prayer, sometimes God has a way of letting things happen that will bring us to our knees.
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05-27-2008, 10:51 AM
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Shaking the dust off my shoes.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Nunya bidness
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Re: How much time do you spend in prayer?
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Originally Posted by DividedThigh
i agree with you mow for the reasons you stated i dont mind generalizing, but i have encountered way to many see how much i pray people to get specific, what a shame, i pray all the time, at my desk, on the golf course, lol, really, dt
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I think it's safe to say we all do. I pray in the shower, in my car, while reading some of these posts around here (  ), when I lay down to go to sleep, as I watch tv programs that stir me, etc. In my opinion, prayer is more about keeping an open line of communication between myself and God at all times. I see the benefit of a specific set time for on my knees kinda prayer too, so I don't want anyone to take my comment the wrong way. I just think we place too much pressure and emphasis on performance when it comes to prayer. It's easy to believe this lie that we don't pray when all along we've been talking to God during the day.
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05-27-2008, 10:53 AM
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Forever Loved Admin
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Texas
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Re: How much time do you spend in prayer?
Joyce Meyers has a very good book(s) on prayer. There are great books on prayer from PPH also.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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05-27-2008, 10:54 AM
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Shaking the dust off my shoes.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Nunya bidness
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Re: How much time do you spend in prayer?
Another point that just came to mind is that some people may need that structured type of praying to make them feel like they've prayed. That's cool too.
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05-27-2008, 10:54 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: H-Town, Texas
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Re: How much time do you spend in prayer?
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Originally Posted by stmatthew
Prayer defined as follows:
Mat 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Mat 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Mat 6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Mat 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Mat 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven.
Mat 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
Mat 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Mat 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
I am basically talking about a definite time that you set aside to pray, not just talking to God throughout the day. |
This prayer would take less than 5 minutes to make.
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05-27-2008, 10:55 AM
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Shaking the dust off my shoes.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Nunya bidness
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Re: How much time do you spend in prayer?
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Originally Posted by cneasttx
Joyce Meyers has a very good book(s) on prayer. There are great books on prayer from PPH also.
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Joyce Meyers?!?!?! Uh boy! That done it!! 
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05-27-2008, 11:01 AM
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Registered Member
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 14,650
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Re: How much time do you spend in prayer?
Altho at times it may vary usually 3 times a day for around 30 minutes each time. Regular prayer is the most important thing I know. Why? Because its fellowshipping with Jesus.
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05-27-2008, 11:01 AM
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Forever Loved Admin
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Texas
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Re: How much time do you spend in prayer?
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Originally Posted by Rico
Joyce Meyers?!?!?! Uh boy! That done it!! |
Yeah, yeah I know. I like to hear and watch her teach too. As long as she is in the Word I have no problem with her and others.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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05-27-2008, 11:02 AM
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Smiles everyone...Smiles!!
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Sparta, TN
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Re: How much time do you spend in prayer?
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Originally Posted by Rico
Eye opening in what sense, Matt?
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I think that as a general rule, most of us do have secret prayer for 1 hour a day. I would say many do not have a specific 30 minutes that we give only to God in prayer. To me this is tells the tale of why we are seeing so little deep spiritual growth in the OP movement in general.
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