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Friday, 17th November 2023
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Praying Without Ceasing: 7 Watches of 24 hour Prayer Cycles – 13 Quotes on Prayer
13 Quotes on Prayer:
1) I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach. — Charles Spurgeon
2) To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees. — Billy Graham
3) We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. — Oswald Chambers
4) When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, when he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy. — Corrie Ten Boom
5) He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. — William Law
6) When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don’t, they don’t. — William Temple
7) Prayer delights God’s ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul. — Thomas Watson
8) The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer. — Andrew Bonar
9) I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. Thousands and tens of thousands of times have my prayers been answered. When once I am persuaded that a thing is right and for the glory of God, I go on praying for it until the answer comes.
George Mueller never gives up! — George Mueller
10) The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor. —Charles Stanley
11) In the conflict between Satan and the Believer, God’s child can conquer EVERYTHING by prayer. Is it any wonder that Satan does his utmost to snatch that weapon from the Christian, or to hinder him in the use of it? — Andrew Murray
12) Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on his knees. — William
Cowper
13) There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. — Brother Lawrence
Let’s dive in into the times of prayer or cycles of prayer. This is brought to you on the need to maintain an unbroken and continuous fellowship and focus on God. The saints of old understood the importance of scheduling prayer into 7 time slots and obeyed those slots like ritual. Both the Jews and the new testament believers followed this time chain. When something is as important as prayer, which the devil tries to distract us and get us focused on the mondaine things of life, we just schedule it into our daily routine and forget about it. It just runs like clockwork. You can’t take the scriptures and pray through them like the Psalms which is inherently prophetic and not keep focus on God for that moment. In focusing on God, He downloads His seconds to second, minutes to minute, hours to hour, days to day, weeks to week, months to month and years to year plans into our hearts.
Read this
Psalm 37:4 says, “Delight yourself also in the LORD and He shall give you the desires of your heart.” Since it is human nature to battle against self-worship, we are tempted to focus on the latter half of this verse which seems to promise that God will give us whatever our little hearts desire. That is not what that scripture means. What that scripture means is that when we focus on God, we begin to desire the things or the plans that He has for us. We literally pickup up is mind like a sponge and we own them as our our desires.
In the presence of God, our selfish desires begins to die out and His selfless desires for our lives comes alive and take the place of the selfish desires.That is, if we spend sufficient time keeping our focus on Him.The length of time to keep focus on Him vary from persons to person, on the level of distractions in our soul. The level to which we are willing to stir up our spirit and soul in worship time and praise and practicing His presence in our lives.
Time and again when I go into the secret place with the Lord, I go with certain desires, some shopping list I take to Him but as I stay in His presence and discern His heart, my prayer list take second place and die out in no time because in His light, there is light. We see what we need to be and to do more clearly than we should have if we spend more time in His presence. If we don’t ease Him out of our lives through our busy schedule which tend to ease Him out of our lives, then we will get the download of His desires for our lives for that time – this is what we call praying without ceasing. Read this
Psalm 36:9
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
9 For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light do we see light.
Concerning times of prayer, read these:
Psalm 119:164
Amplified Bible
164 Seven times a day I praise You,Because of Your righteous ordinances
Acts 3:1
Peter Heals a Lame Beggar
One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon
Here are some bible passages you can use at such time cycles as outlined below – You can add or remove scriptures from the list below as the Lord causes you to focus on certain scriptures at certain seasons of your life:
As you pray through these scriptures, personalize them as much as possible. As you replace we with I, me with them, Israel with your name or nation, shall with now, to make it relevant for now and in the realm of faith. Fitting in to them the specific petitions you bring to Him. Take them as prophetic declaration over circumstances and situation for yourself, your family, your neighborhood, your country, your church and the Nations of the world.
Times of Prayers and Corresponding Scriptures. Not any particular order. You can shuffle them around and add or remove scriptures as you wish or are led by His Spirit in you – 7 watches – Updated
1) 6AM – Psalm 144, Psalm 2
2) 9 AM Psalm 136 and Psalm 118
3) 12 PM – Isaiah 60, Psalm 24
4) 3 PM – Isaiah 61, Psalm 3
5) 6 PM – Psalm 90, Psalm 91; Psalm 37
6) 9 PM – Isaiah 62, Psalm 71
7) 12 AM – Mind night – Psalm 119, Isaiah 40
Further reading:
11 Chronicles 16:8-16
Isaiah 66:18-9
Isaiah 43:5-7
Habakkuk 2:14
John 14:13-14
John 17:4
Isaiah 24:14-15
Shalom
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