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READ GENESIS 32-36. CONSIDER THIS: YOUR PERSONAL PRAYING: PART ONE. One goal that guided the development of the PRAYER SEMINAR WORKBOOK was to provide some practical suggestions in writing for my students, applicable to the “then” and “there” for one’s spiritual life. Then during the prayer seminar itself to flesh out the points made. Thousands have been given the opportunity at the close of a prayer seminar to write what God had done for them during the seminar and what they were going to do with what they learned. Many of these, including pastors, commented upon how practical the teaching was and how their prayer lives had been enriched.
Session Seven in the Prayer Seminar is filled with practical suggestions. PRIORITY AND DISCIPLINE are two building foundational blocks. The need to understand the IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER is basic. God wants us to pray. Two guiding Biblical principles in the School of Prayer are as follows:
#1. ESTABLISH A TIME TO MEET THE LORD. Make an appointment with God and keep the appointment. Begin by devoting a few minutes a day for prayer. As these moments are blessed, it will not be long until you are scheduling more time for prayer. There must be a beginning, however. The beginning is making the appointment and keeping the appointment.
#2. ESTABLISH A PLACE TO MEET THE LORD. Jesus Himself taught closet praying: a set place, a shut place, a secluded place AS FREE FROM INTERRUPTIONS AS POSSIBLE. Use the place exclusively or prayer on a regular basis and psychological set will work for you. An attitude of readiness will invade you when you are in your prayer closet. As you go to your place of prayer, your mind will more readily affirm God’s presence with you. READ YOUR BIBLE FIRST. Read until you have a message from the written Word stirred up by the Holy Spirit
Session Seven in the Prayer Seminar is filled with practical suggestions. PRIORITY AND DISCIPLINE are two building foundational blocks. The need to understand the IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER is basic. God wants us to pray. Two guiding Biblical principles in the School of Prayer are as follows:
#1. ESTABLISH A TIME TO MEET THE LORD. Make an appointment with God and keep the appointment. Begin by devoting a few minutes a day for prayer. As these moments are blessed, it will not be long until you are scheduling more time for prayer. There must be a beginning, however. The beginning is making the appointment and keeping the appointment.
#2. ESTABLISH A PLACE TO MEET THE LORD. Jesus Himself taught closet praying: a set place, a shut place, a secluded place AS FREE FROM INTERRUPTIONS AS POSSIBLE. Use the place exclusively or prayer on a regular basis and psychological set will work for you. An attitude of readiness will invade you when you are in your prayer closet. As you go to your place of prayer, your mind will more readily affirm God’s presence with you. READ YOUR BIBLE FIRST. Read until you have a message from the written Word stirred up by the Holy Spirit
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