12 Ingredients to Prayer

A structure to your prayer time will increase the affect and the intimacy of your prayer life.  These 12 ingredients will help:

1) Praise – esteem God and His virtues!  Pslam 63:3

2) Waiting – “be still and know…”  Psalm 37:7

3) Confession – Clear the way for powerful praying  Psalm 51:10

4) The Word – pray the Word of God!  Psalm 19:7-8

5) Intercession – praying for others  Psalm 2:8

6) Petition – personal needs Matthew 7:7

7) Read the Word – not only pray the Word of God, but read the Word of God

8) Thanksgiving – praising God for what He has done!  Phil. 4:6

9) Singing – worshiping God in melody  Eph. 5:19

10) Meditation – ponder spiritual themes – an active mind.  Psalm 1:1-2

11) Listening – the ‘still small voice’ I Kings 19:11-12

12) Praise – We end as we began!

– by Dick Eastman

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