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Suggestions for Prayer Time

1. If your prayers do not emanate from your heart, they probably will not touch the heart of God.

2. If your prayers do not come from rigorous Bible reading and study, they probably will not represent the mind of God.

3. Do not pray for anything for which you would not be willing to dedicate your life, your fortune, and your sacred honor -- should God ask you.

4. Ask God to break your heart with the things that break His.

5. Personal prayer is honest, candid, no-holds-barred conversation with God. Like Jacob, Job, and others, have your fights with God and tell it like you see it, but then give Him equal time to tell it like He sees it. (As in, "Come, lets us reason together..."   Is. 1:18)

6. An honest fight with God is a prerequisite for entry into the Kingdom. It will happen in our own personal Good Friday experiences.

7. The cross is a death-warrant. One of two things will happen on our Good Fridays: either we will allow Jesus to crucify our sins, or we will again crucify Him. That is the fight.

8. Only as we go through our Good Fridays to Easter, the Ascension, and Pentecost are we prepared for the spiritual warfare around us. Only then can we meaningfully pray for our enemies and bring down the works of the devil.

9. Mature prayer is the fundamental work of the Church -- bringing the burdens of the world before the throne of the Father. It is hard work, but yields the power that makes everything else work.

10. Prayer does not "work", God does. It is all about personal relationship.