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      Prayer in simple terms is talking with God. Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, the Christian's native air. But, lack of time or quality in prayer seems to be an almost universal frustration among Christians. Andrew Murray once said that we spend a lifetime with Christ in the school of school, yet, too many of us are still in kindergarden.

      "In prayer it is better to have a heart with out words, that words without a heart" - John Bunyan.

      Why do we pray? "The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that will our purpose". It is emphasized that we should not only just spend time but also spend quality time in prayer. We should pray with intimacy during our quite times. Here prayer becomes a trump card for our personal devotional life.

      Praying for ourselves is fine, but we must also develop the attitude of praying for others. In the Bible there are numerous situations where one prays for the other (Eg. Paul, Timothy)

      One aspect of prayer is still very important; how to pray? Many people say that 2 verbs often occupy prayer, fasting and kneeling. The most effective prayers are fasting prayers. Ore often they become feasting because of the richness involved in talking to our Father in Heaven.

      Finally, let's sum up what we learnt:

      - The richness of our personal life is the quality time we spend in prayer.

      - It is always necessary that we intercede for others too.

      - If your health gives way, FAST and pray.

      Pray with fire in your heart. Pray as though it is the most important thing in your daily schedule. Remember to take Jesus, Daniel, Nehemiah, Paul, David and prayerful people and learn of how they prayed. Let me close with a quotation -

      "The degree of our faith is the degree of our prayer.

      The strength of our hope is the strength of our prayer.

      The warmth of our charity is the warmth of our prayer".


      Paul Abraham.



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