023 | Praying with Purpose

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Have you ever started praying and caught yourself just praying the same thing over and over again, day in and day out? In this episode, I am going to teach you how you can pray with purpose and make your prayer time more purposeful.

For a long time, I struggled to pray. I was caught in the "please do this Lord and please do that Lord "and "thank you for this and thank you for that".

Nothing deep really and nothing with purpose.

So I got bored and I felt like a fraud to be honest and therefore I stopped. I still felt as if I had a relationship with the Lord and I spent most of my time praising and worshipping. But not necessarily praying.

To be honest, I just didn’t know what to say, what to pray for, so instead of saying something… I said nothing.

But I felt as if God was missing me speaking to Him, and I felt pressed to start praying again. I also felt a whole as if something was in fact missing.

I remembered that I was gifted 3 books by Stormie Martin called:

• The power of a praying wife
• The power of a praying parent and
• The Power of a Praying Woman

So I grabbed those and simply started praying 1 prayer from each book each day, 1 prayer for my husband, 1 for my kids and 1 for me.

It really helped me to have guidance and not wonder what to say or what to pray because I had help!

I then started looking for something similar for my business and found an ebook. So I also started praying for my business each day.

Soon, I started feeling really so much closer to God that I wanted more. I wanted it to be more personal.

So I started a prayer journal. And what is interesting is that when I started writing down my prayers, they were so much different from when I used to pray, saying something and writing something is completely different. We often don’t talk the way we write and we don’t write the way we talk.

I ended up writing pages and pages of prayer just talking to God about everything.

Soon my prayers became more purposeful and I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning to spend time with God.

As soon as my prayers became more purposeful as well, I started noticing changes within me as well. I felt more confident praying and I no longer wondered what I was going to say because it was simply flowing out.

If you’re feeling stuck and would like to make your prayer more purposeful, I would suggestion the following:

1. Start with a book that gives you the words to say
2. Pray your bible, there are many verses in the bible that you can pray over yourself, for example, the prayer of Jabez, the Lord’s Prayer, pray for yourself and for others to have the fruits of the spirit, pray for your spiritual gifts, pray the Armour of God over yourself
3. Get a prayer journal, start writing down your prayers and look back at them often to see how far you’ve come and what prayers have been answered. It will surprise you!

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Links mentioned in the episode:

• The power of a praying wife
• The power of a praying parent
• The Power of a Praying Woman
• New Living Translation Study Bible
• Praying for your business

Other recommended resources:

• Maxwell Leadership Bible
• 21 Laws of Leadership in the Bible
• The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day
• A Leader's Heart: 365-Day Devotional Journal

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