Developing Your Prayer Muscles

So, how do you develop prayer muscles to move from praying a few minutes here and there to praying without ceasing? That’s what this blog post will discuss.

~ 1. First of all, write down to the side, and preferably in your prayer journal how long, in minutes, you think you prayed today.

~ 2. Do NOT beat yourself up for your answer from #1 or #3. We’re just getting a starting point.

~ 3. How many minutes did you pray yesterday?

~ 4. Make it your goal to increase by 5 minutes every day for 5 days. Write down at the end of each and every day how long you prayed that day. Keep the record. Put it in your prayer journal is the most ideal.

~ 5. Review and analyze. How did Days 1-5 go and were you able to increase every day by 5 minutes? If so, good for you! If not, you have every day for the rest of your life to try. So, keep the faith and persevere.

~ 6. Repeat steps 1-5 every 5 days for the rest of your life. In time, you will be praying without ceasing.

~ 7. Practice, practice, practice.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

Blogs:

http://pj4life1.blogspot.com/

http://alifeofseasons.blogspot.com/

http://prayerguardusa.blogspot.com/

Keep it simple and prayer: the #1 Rule of thumb

Whether we’re talking about prayer or prayer journaling, there is one rule to always, without fail, keep in mind.

KEEP IT SIMPLE.

If you haven’t been praying before for more than a minute here or there, you can’t start off and pray without ceasing. Start off in little chunks.

So, how do you develop prayer muscles to move from praying a few minutes here and there to praying without ceasing? Check out my next blog post.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

Blogs:

http://pj4life1.blogspot.com/

http://alifeofseasons.blogspot.com/

http://prayerguardusa.blogspot.com/

Prayer Journaling (Notebook) Ideas, Suggestions, and Inspirations (aka pj4life Thoughts to Ponder) #1-

I’ve mentioned in a few blog posts that it’s essential to prayer journal, keep a prayer notebook, keep a record, or whatever else you want to call it. I call it pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life). But, I’ll keep is simple and call it either pj4life or prayer journaling. When I use these terms, I mean any way you write down your prayers for when you have your Daily Quiet Time.

I’m going to start to give you a few pointers with prayer journaling—starting in this post.

PJ4LIFE THOUGHTS TO PONDER:

~ 1. Keep it simple.

~ 2. Journal every day—preferably at least morning and night.

~ 3. Journal ANYTHING God puts on your heart.

~ 4. There is no such thing as journaling too much.

~ 5. Tailor a system that works for you. Make it your own. I will give you tips in this blog, but they are just suggestions.

~ 6. Remember that your journal is where you write your prayers and answers to prayers. But, it’s also your record of your walk with God. Therefore, include your memories made through your day.

~ 7. Keep track of what you say to God and what He says to you.

~ 8. Keep sermon notes and Bible study notes here.

~ 9. Keep track of your prayer requests.

~ 10. Use it to WRITE. (See earlier blog posts today for this definition.)

~ 11. There are two types of journals: paper and digital (one you put on the computer).

~ 12. If you keep a paper journal, switch it over sometime to the digital kind. The digital kind lasts forever and never loses quality.

~ 13. If you do a paper journal, consider using mainly black ink. Blue fades faster over time.

~ 14. If you do a digital journal, save it in several different ways. Save one copy that you email to yourself, keep a memory stick (or 2 or 3 just to be safe) copy, keep a copy on your computer, keep a copy on an eternal hard drive. Then, it will last forever. You may even want to write an online journal or blog in which you are the only one who has access to it, or a select few—but not the public (unless you don’t write names and use numbers instead for confidentiality reasons and protect privacy).

I will add more pj4life thoughts to ponder every now and then and will continue with the numbering.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: pj4life1@gmail.com

Thanks for the follow!

Alana, I just wanted to thank you for following and am quite glad that you might try prayer journaling!

Welcome.

Blessings,

~ Stacy Duplease

Daily Quiet Time Prayer: More Information

Our Daily Quiet Time Prayer consists of:

~ 1. WRITE and write (see other blog posts from today)

~ 2. Different types of prayer

~ 3. Bible reading

~ 4. Memory verses

~ 5. Bible study

~ 6. Devotional reading

Just a reminder about WRITE and write:

WRITE is:

Write (prayer journal and notebook) and:

Word-Based

Review

Ignite

Time

Examine

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

Blogs:

http://pj4life1.blogspot.com/

http://alifeofseasons.blogspot.com/

http://prayerguardusa.blogspot.com/

Prayer Guard USA Order of Battle: Which Battle Fronts Should We Pray? (Version 1)

How should we pray and what should we pray for—every day, weekly, monthly, and so on—and do so effectively? The Order of Battle is the answer to that question.

First of all, there are areas or locations where we fight. Those are our areas or locations of our battle (operation). Take a look below in order to see what these are specifically.

Then, there are the Battle Fronts (or waves). What are these? Our prayer lives consist of people, circumstances, places, the church, and the unbelievers/lost. Take a look below in order to see what these are specifically.

There are units of prayer within each of the Battle Fronts. Take a look below in order to see what these are specifically.

Order of Battle: PRAYER AREAS OF OPERATION

~ Myself

~ Spouse

~ Children

~ Home

~ Spiritual Warfare Specifics

~ Prayer Requests

~ News (Latest News Events Reported)

~ A-S-K Prayers

~ My work and peers

~ My spouse’s work and peers

~ My children’s schools and peers

~ Family

~ Friends

~ The Block in which I live

~ My church

~ My city

~ My state

~ My nation

~ The Church (all the Christian churches in the world)

~ World

~ Unbelievers/Lost

~ Christian Radio and Ministries

Order of Battle: The PEOPLE Battle Front

~ 1. Prayer Request Specifics (if I know of any)

~ 2. Spiritual Health

~ 3. Circumstances

~ 4. Mental Health

~ 5. Emotional Health

~ 6. Family

~ 7. Work

~ 8. Finances

~ 9. Busyness

~ 10. Their dreams and goals

~ 11. Verses that come to mind for these people and their circumstances.

Order of Battle: The CIRCUMSTANCES Battle Front

~ 1. Identify the circumstance that needs prayer. Label it. Name it.

~ 2. Who does this impact directly?

~ 3. How does this impact you directly?

~ 4. How does this impact you indirectly?

~ 5. Why does it need prayer? What is the prayer?

~ 6. What do you HOPE happens? How do you hope to change regarding the circumstance?

~ 7. If it’s not God’s will to change it, then it’s also important to release the result of the prayer and circumstance to God. In other words, pray that His will be done.

~ 8. Verses that come to mind for these people and their circumstances.

Order of Battle: The PLACES Battle Front

These are buildings, organizations, states, cities, schools, nations, etc.

~ 1. Identify the place. Name it. Label it.

~ 2. What specific prayer requests do you have, or have you heard about the place that comes to mind?

With each prayer request, look at each of the following:

~ 3. Who is there?

~ 4. What is the importance of this place?

~ 5. How does this touch your life directly?

~ 6. How does this touch your life indirectly?

~ 7. How is God working in that place presently?

~ 8. How is the enemy at work in this place?

~ 9. How is this place glorifying to God? Pray for more of that.

~ 10. How does this place not glorify God? What change does it need in order to glorify God?

~ 11. What is the spiritual health of this place?

~ 12. How does this place build the people up within that place? Pray for more of that.

~ 13. How does this place tear down the people up within that place? Pray for less of that.

~ 14. Pray anything else that God puts on your mind.

~ 15. Verses that come to mind for these people and their circumstances.

Order of Battle: The CHURCH Battle Front

Pray this 1^st for your church. Then, once you do this, pray for your denomination. Then, pray these things for the Church as a whole.

~ 1. Prayer Request Specifics (if I know of any)

~ 2. Spiritual Health

~ 3. Circumstances

~ 4. Mental Health

~ 5. Emotional Health

~ 6. Family

~ 7. Work

~ 8. Finances

~ 9. Busyness

~ 10. Their dreams and goals

~ 11. Verses that come to mind for these people and their circumstances.

Order of Battle: The UNBELIEVERS/LOST Battle Front

List all of the people in your life that are close to you that are lost. Then, list people that you consider friends. Then, list the people you come to in your life and are acquaintances. Then, pray these things for the unbelievers of your block, city, church, state, nation, and world.

~ 1. Prayer Request Specifics (if I know of any)

~ 2. Spiritual Health

~ 3. Circumstances

~ 4. Mental Health

~ 5. Emotional Health

~ 6. Family

~ 7. Work

~ 8. Finances

~ 9. Busyness

~ 10. Their dreams and goals

~ 11. Verses that come to mind for these people and their circumstances.

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC, Prayer Guard USA, and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: pj4life1@gmail.com

Prayer Areas of Operation: Revised (Version 4)

PRAYER AREAS OF OPERATION

~ Myself

~ Spouse

~ Children

~ Home

~ Spiritual Warfare Specifics

~ Prayer Requests

~ News (Latest News Events Reported)

~ A-S-K Prayers

~ My work and peers

~ My spouse’s work and peers

~ My children’s schools and peers

~ Family

~ Friends

~ The Block in which I live

~ My church

~ My city

~ My state

~ My nation

~ The Church (all the Christian churches in the world)

~ World

~ Unbelievers/Lost

~ Christian Radio and Ministries

~ Stacy Duplease

Remembering Your Present, LLC and pj4life (Prayer Journaling for Life)

Author of Biblical Fiction, Bible Studies, and Devotionals

Email: Pj4life1@gmail.com

Blogs:

http://pj4life1.blogspot.com

http://alifeofseasons.blogspot.com

http://prayerguardusa.blogspot.com