How to Strengthen Your Prayer Life

• Develop a prayer discipline - To enhance your prayer life Schedule 15 - 30 minute intervals of uninterrupted prayer time each day - and increase it. A strong prayer relationship requires regular commitment. In your prayers, incorporate: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication (ACTS).

   

• Create Prayer Space - Within your home, find a private space that you can use daily to meet the Lord for prayer and meditataion. In prayer time, you will both listen and talk. Increase your listening time by incorporating meditation into your devotional sessions.

   

• Pray for the need and not the answer - Use prayer time to seek the counsel of God rather than to issue commands and instructions to god. Always pray in the name of Jesus.

   

• Develop a fasting discipline - You should fast and pray in order to humble yourself and purify your heart and your motives. In fasting, we are not trying to get something from God, but we are seeking to realign our heart's affections with His. Fasting enables us to cleanse the sanctuary of our hearts from every other rival and to be totally available to God.

   

• Memorize and recite scripture - The memorization and recitation of scripture allow one to incorporate scripture into his or her prayers. When we quote the Word during prayer we center and empower ourselves in the Lord.

   

• Create a blessings list - Daily record all of your answered prayers. Share your lists with God as you pray and thank Him for each specific blessing.

   

• Participate in mid-week prayer services and Bible-study classes - By participating in prayer services and Bible-study classes you will mature spiritually and use your spiritual gifts to further build up the body of Christ.
  
  These principles came from the Washington Baptist Church