How to Make Prayer a Habit (for Christians)

Prayer is a vital part of every Christian's life, but it can be tough to get into the habit of praying every day. If you're a Christian who wants to develop a habit of daily prayer to deepen your relationship with God, we can help. In this article, we'll show you how to build prayer into your everyday tasks so the act of praying becomes second nature to you.

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Challenge yourself to pray for a few minutes every day for thirty days. This is about the time that it takes to develop a habit.
Attend regular prayer meetings at your local church. Hearing other believers pray will give you ideas on ways to pray, and it will encourage you greatly to see that you are not alone in your endeavor to pray.
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Plan to get together in person or on the phone once a week or more. This will help keep you and your partner on track.
Pray that they and others will make good choices. This adds another element to your prayer life and will remove distractions.
Use a space for a prayer request and leave a space for the answer (including "Yes.", "No." or "Waiting..."). Include dates. This will help you remember what to pray for, and you can see how God is working through you in your prayer life.
This doesn't mean that you need to go around praying and not paying attention to the rest of your life. You need to keep an attitude of honoring and praising God -- and to make God the first person you contact when you need help, and thank Him for everything, in any case, good or bad, always asking for His best, even in your worst day.
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Form the habit of praying to learn to accept God's will. You are safe in God's will. As the prophet Job said: "Though God slay me, yet will I trust Him". Realize that you never know tomorrow -- or one minute ahead -- which means: you have to fight through the consequences for what you and others do or fail to do. So, pray for strength to:
- Study twice as long and try to learn twice as much, to earn even a little better grade. It is God's will that you study and practice (sow seed) for years, as say for 5000 hours. And so, work up and earn skill/talent or more money -- because God's will includes:
  - "You will reap what you sow (plant)." Sowing for what you will be reaping can center your prayer results...
After you pray for talents, wishes, needs and hopes -- then work and pray while it is time to work. Look to the ant -- how it works in season, so that it will have provisions laid up for when nothing more is available except what was already prepared; so, "work out you salvation with fear and trembling".
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Why does God lead us in the battles of life?
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Because of sin during the fall of mankind (Adam and Eve). Sin entered the world by them. Don't worry, God helps all those who are in tough times. With birds, no one feeds them but they manage to survive. How? God provided them even when they face hardships. Sin was introduced by the devil, which is why we face things such as betrayal since the devil corrupted the traitor's heart.
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What does fasting imply for a Christian?
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Not eating for the specified time of the fast.
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How do I work on salvation with fear and trembling?
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Remember, the Gospels teach us not to fear. My understanding is that salvation is won by our willingness to forgive, and to love one another as Christ taught us to. Fear and trembling is entirely unnecessary: be confident in the love of Christ.
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Personal ease often has to be eliminated to practice, pray and study for hours and years to gain a real talent or skill that you would wish... So, musicians practice for years and never can stop practicing regularly.
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Crops already sown by other people (mom and dad, etc.) and events caused will probably affect you. You must bread the curse, by believing for your own salvation...
- You must not always expect to kill out weeds such as from parents divorce planted by them. The seeds have been "sown" then into the Children's experience. The Bible says the sins of the parents will affect, and will be coming out for generations. But, pray that the children and the children's children may be able to break that growing curse put on them by mom or dad or grandparents choices (what they sowed).
- Nor can not you demand or expect to kill disease such as cancer when weak genetics, chemical hazards or smoking may have sown it already.
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