Is there a simple way to deepen your prayer life?
Is there a simple way to deepen your prayer life? Yes. It requires discipline, time to pray (of course), and a desire to grow in godliness. Suffering from cheesy prayers? Do your prayers need challenging - to think through what it is exactly you're doing in prayer? How am I supposed to pray for an hour a day? What do I do? It was An Hour that Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer , by Dick Eastman. In it, he suggests that Christians should make it their aim to pray for an hour a day. He derives this suggestion from Matthew 26:40, where Jesus asks, “Could you not watch with me for one hour?” Eastman says the best way to pray for an hour is to split up the hour into 12 blocks of five minutes, then pray with a timer, and pray through the different blocks, five minutes at a time. Now Eastman gives his 12 blocks of time (praise, waiting, confession, Scripture, watching, intercession, petition, thanksgiving, singing, meditation, listening, a...