This is a blog of prayer. It is meant to help us learn to pray 247365 (24 hours a day, seven days per week, three hundred sixty-five days per year) and develop the self-control to do so.
After a great deal of deliberation, I realized something. I think we do not pray because we do not know how to pray or what to pray. Then, to further complicate our lack of prayer, we get busy and/or sidetracked. So, what if we carried around with us at all times prayers based directly off the Word of God, the Bible? Wouldn't this teach us to pray and give our minds something else to keep busy with, one that pleases God since it is commanded by Him?
How different would our personal lives be if we prayed 247365 and filled our minds and hearts with prayer, rather than on junk and the superfluous? How much different would our neighborhoods, towns, cities, states, churches, countries, and world be if we did? The fact is if every Christian were to pray 247365, we would not recognize ourselves or the world.
Praying without ceasing, and thanking God for everything, along with meditating on the Word day and night are commands given to us by God. If we were to pray, pray verses from the Bible, and do so morning, noon, and night, then we would please God. Then, our faith would increase in a dramatic fashion, and our world would be nothing like it is now.
The prayers offered on this blog is for that purpose. It is my goal to turn this blog into the largest collection of prayers in the name of Jesus Christ, and based directly off the Word of God (the Bible), on the internet.
PRAYER HINTS AND TIPS: FOR THIS PRAYS 247365 BLOG
Please pray all the prayers. Do not skip one. There is a reason why God put it in front of you to read and pray at this time. You may not see it or understand it at the time, and it might not make sense at all, but trust God. He will use your prayers and will answer each of them in time, so pray all of them and do not skip any. After all, while the prayers may not apply directly to us at the time, they might have in the past or will in the future, and they most certainly apply to others in this world. Intercede and pray the prayers for them, even the unknown faces, if they do not apply to you.
We are to oray for self and for others. Hence, I also ask you to pray each and every prayer for these focuses: yourself, for those in your home, your direct neighbors (in front, back, and to both sides), your direct family, your distant family, your friends, your block, your neighborhood, your schools, your town or city, your church, your denomination, your state, your country, the persecuted, the Church as a whole, other specific countries, the lost, and the world as a whole. This is what can make one of these prayers last for the next 24 hours alone as you pray.
Pray thoroughly and completely. Do not pray just a simple blanket prayer. Pray for every single person to receive an answer to at least part of the prayer.
Pray specifically.
Prayer journal as you pray and keep a record of your prayers. That way, when they are answered later on that day, or up to decades later, you will remember your prayer and trace (track) how it was answered over time. Therefore, prayer journal as much as possible and at least several times per day.
BLOG TO BOOK
In time, I will edit each of these prayers and add to them and will publish them in a book format from time to time. I will publish them in the order on this blog in two to four books per year and then will publish them once a year divided into topics. I will also offer multiple books in one as well so you can save money and not have to buy several books.
However, you can also just read them off of here for free, but they might not be as polished as they could be. I will try, though.
FEEL FREE TO SHARE YOUR OWN PRAYERS AND PRAYER REQUESTS
Also, feel free to interact with me and with one another, share your prayers, prayer requests, answers to prayer, etc. on this blog by attaching a comment at the end if any blog post. How you do that is by clicking on the envelope. Or, there is a contact form on the right hand side of the blog toward the bottom and you can include any correspondence there as well, whichever is easier for you.
Let's make this a prayer community.
Also, make suggestions, ask questions, etc.
Do you want to join the prayer team on this blog? Attach a comment or use the contact form. Let's pray for one another, the Church, and the world. Let's pray for a Spiritual Awakening and a revival.
I look forward to hearing from you.
PRAYING FOR THE NEWS AND CURRENT EVENTS
I will tweet and Google+ articles to pray for and about each day. So, please take a look at them at any of the following:
twitter: @Prays247365 https://twitter.com/Prays247365/tweets
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/109155391641093838203/posts
LET'S PRAY NOW FOR A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AND REVIVAL
This is the other purpose for these prayers and for this blog.
Our world is experiencing a holocaust, along with the utter depravity of mankind, even within our churches.
Prayer is the only solution.
If every single Christian prayed at least daily for the focuses of prayer I have mentioned, our world would experience a Spiritual Awakening and revival larger, more powerful, more God-centered than the world has ever seen. Every one of us would be forever changed and transformed.
Now, imagined what would happen if every single Christian made it their goal to pray 247365 and without stopping.
If the world frustrates you, concerns you, breaks your heart, causes you to question, etc., try this. Pray without ceasing for everyone in the world. And, then pray for a Spiritual Awakening and Revival.
WARNING: THESE PRAYERS ARE NOT FANCY, PRETTY, OR EASY PRAYERS
We live in a world that tends to like the easy, the fair, the fast, the pretty, the kind. However, the Bible and Christianity require he opposite. If your Church, Bible study group, Bible studies, or Christian Living books are any of the previous (the easy, etc.), run! They are not based on Truth. The prayers I will share will not be easy, etc. They will be based on Truth. If a prayer does not make you feel stirred up and convicted, I question if you are praying what you could or should. Our prayers must cause a stir today in our silent, world-centered, busy, chaotic, loud, sin drenched world. If our prayers do not stir, then we are going for the easy. Our way is anything but.
Shall we get started? Let's pray.
EZEKIEL 16 NASB PRAYER
This prayer and passage is a rather weighty one. It's also quite long. However, once you read it, I think you will understand why I am sharing it now and first thing. Our world needs to hear this. Our nations, states, cities, neighborhoods, families, homes, and individuals all need to hear this message. After all, words from thousands of years ago reflect today. Read it and see what I mean.
Pray the parts of this passage at least for each of the following focuses: yourself, for those in your home, your direct neighbors (in front, back, and to both sides), your direct family, your distant family, your friends, your block, your neighborhood, your schools, your town or city, your church, your denomination, your state, your country, the persecuted, the Church as a whole, other specific countries, the lost, and the world as a whole.
It is a chapter about wandering from God and the Bible and is also about idolatry. It's about loving other things and other individuals before and instead of God. Then, it talks about God's love and forgiveness when we repent and turn to Him first and foremost once again.
Pray and prayer journal about this today and this evening.
Ezekiel 16 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
16 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations 3 and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem, “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite, your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths. 5 No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the open field, for you were abhorred on the day you were born.
6 “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ 7 I made you numerous like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.
8 “Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine,” declares the Lord God. 9 “Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil. 10 I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. 11 I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck. 12 I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. 14 Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord God.
15 “But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing. 16 You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never come about nor happen. 17 You also took your beautiful jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them. 18 Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them. 19 Also My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, you would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares the Lord God. 20 “Moreover, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter? 21 You slaughtered My children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire. 22 Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.
23 “Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ declares the Lord God), 24 that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square. 25 You built yourself a high place at the top of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry. 26 You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry. 27 Behold now, I have stretched out My hand against you and diminished your rations. And I delivered you up to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd conduct. 28 Moreover, you played the harlot with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied. 29 You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied.”’”
30 “How languishing is your heart,” declares the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot. 31 When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in disdaining money, you were not like a harlot. 32 You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband! 33 Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries. 34 Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot as you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different.”
35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord. 36 Thus says the Lord God, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols, 37 therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness. 38 Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 39 I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare. 40 They will incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 41 They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers. 42 So I will calm My fury against you and My jealousy will depart from you, and I will be pacified and angry no more. 43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head,” declares the Lord God, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.
44 “Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ 45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46 Now your older sister is Samaria, who lives north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lives south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. 47 Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they. 48 As I live,” declares the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. 49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy. 50 Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it. 51 Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. Thus you have made your sisters appear righteous by all your abominations which you have committed. 52 Also bear your disgrace in that you have made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.
53 “Nevertheless, I will restore their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them your own captivity, 54 in order that you may bear your humiliation and feel ashamed for all that you have done when you become a consolation to them. 55 Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state, and you with your daughters will also return to your former state. 56 As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard from your lips in your day of pride, 57 before your wickedness was uncovered, so now you have become the reproach of the daughters of Edom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you. 58 You have borne the penalty of your lewdness and abominations,” the Lord declares. 59 For thus says the Lord God, “I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
60 “Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. 61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant. 62 Thus I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord, 63 so that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done,” the Lord God declares.
-- New American Standard Bible (NASB). Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.
