001 Prays 247365 and a Romans 8 Blog Post Series

THE FOCUS OF PRAYS 247365 BLOG
Prays 247365 is a blog about prayer. It's about everything you ever wanted to know about prayer.
It's a teaching and coaching blog about prayer.
It's a community and group of intercessors and prayer warriors who, well, pray. It's about people who make the commitment to want to learn to pray, and actually pray, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year long (247365). So, please, add comments to the end of any blog post and let's stand together in prayer. Let's ask questions, encourage one another, add prayer requests, and pray through this blog. Share your prayer focuses with us and what God has put on your heart to pray in a comment you add at the end of any blog post.

PRAYING THE WORD OF GOD
The most powerful and effective prayers we can ever pray are when we pray the Word back to God and we ponder the verses and prayer journal about them. Moreover, it's the easiest prayer to do because we don't have to come up with the words. God already gave them to us in His Word. And, it's the very type of prayer we do not do and neglect. (I cannot help but shake my head and wonder why as I look in the mirror and think of other believers I talk with about prayer. I will discuss this more in the upcoming blog posts.)
Therefore, as we pray, and learn more about prayer and share about prayer, I will make it a point to do a blog post series on different chapters of the Bible and focus on prayer regarding that chapter and how it applies to current events and our lives today as we pray.
Our first blog post series, and praying the Word, is on Romans 8.

PRAYS 247365 AND ROMANS 8 BLOG POST SERIES
We will pray Romans 8 so much in this blog post series we will memorize it without even trying. After all, we will read it and pray it back to God all day and night long, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as long as this blog post series lasts.
We will focus on what we can learn about prayer through Romans 8 and how to apply it to our lives (including our prayer lives)  today.

THE GOAL OF THIS BLOG POST SERIES
1 To teach and coach about prayer
2 To focus on Romans 8
3 To focus on prayer, Romans 8,  world events, and how all three of those things can be used or combined together
4 For me to take part in Camp NaNoWriMo in July 2015 and I will write this blog post series during the month (to write a minimum of 50,000 words in 30 days in 100 blog posts that average 500 words each).
Shall we begin?
Let's pray.

PRAYER
Lord, thank You for being You and for all You do. You are my One and Only. There is no one and nothing like You. You are the King of kings, Lord of lords, the Beginning, the Last, the Great I AM, Savior, Friend, Judge, Teacher, Comforter, Creator, and Almighty.
Lord, teach me to pray. And, not only that, but how to pray 247365 and what to pray during that time.
Help Romans 8 teach me how to live, how to pray, and more about Your Word. Help me hear You clearly and to respond accordingly. In the name of Jesus, help me to understand fully what I read.

WORD OF THE DAY
Read Romans 8 in your favorite version of the Bible.

Praying the Word of God, the Bible and Romans 8:1-4

If you do not know what to pray, or how to do it and or Prayer journaling, the best place to start is with praying the Word of God, the Scripture, the Holy Bible.
If you know what to pray, I still recommend the same.
Praying the Word is the best prayer and is the most powerful and effective we can pray. Period. Hands down.
Now, unless you at struggling with something, or if something specific has been placed on your heart, I recommend using a read the Bible in a year program and start there. In each chapter of the Bible, find three verses at least to focus on as you pray and prayer journal. Then, read them aloud if you can, one by one, as you pray it back to God. Then, listen and pay attention to the stirring of your thoughts and emotions--and what God is saying. Prayer  journal about that.
Throughout your day and night, re-read those verses and pray them back to God so much that you memorize them.
Do this with your daily Bible reading. Turn it into prayer time as you read His Word.
Continue with your own personal Bible reading and praying the Word time as you read this blog and do what this blog says, do your Sunday school and small group lessons as well, along with any other Bible study. Do praying the Word with all of that.
And, add this. For this blog, we are going to memorize Romans 8 through prayer journaling and praying the Word of God.
For the next week, let's focus on praying the Word so much, the following four verses, that we end up memorizing them without even realizing it. Carry the verses with you everywhere you go. I guarantee you have several blank spots throughout your day you can use to read and pray the Word.
For instance, as you wait for your car to warm up for a second before you go. This will actually help your car last longer.
Or, what about while waiting on hold on the phone or while waiting for an appointment? While standing in a line, while brushing your teeth, while eating, while on break, before you get of out bed, before you go to sleep, if you cannot sleep in the middle of the night, while cooking, etc.
Here is the first round of verses to pray:

VERSES TO PRAY, PONDER, AND MEMORIZE
Romans 8:1-4 Living Bible (TLB)
8 So there is now no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus. 2 For the power of the life-giving Spirit—and this power is mine through Christ Jesus—has freed me from the vicious circle of sin and death. 3 We aren’t saved from sin’s grasp by knowing the commandments of God because we can’t and don’t keep them, but God put into effect a different plan to save us. He sent his own Son in a human body like ours—except that ours are sinful—and destroyed sin’s control over us by giving himself as a sacrifice for our sins. 4 So now we can obey God’s laws if we follow after the Holy Spirit and no longer obey the old evil nature within us.

Prayer and Romans 8:26

Do you know what to pray? How about how to begin?
Do you know how to pray?
I have been a prayer warrior for over twenty-one years and I have to admit, most of the time, I am rather clueless how to pray, what to pray, etc. So, there have been times I have chosen not to pray because I was too intimidated.
Or, I have another problem: Too much to pray. Where to begin?
This verse covers every facet of prayer:
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Romans 8:26 Living Bible (TLB)
26 And in the same way—by our faith—the Holy Spirit helps us with our daily problems and in our praying. For we don’t even know what we should pray for nor how to pray as we should, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with such feeling that it cannot be expressed in words.
-- Living Bible (TLB). The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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Read this verse, pray it, prayer journal it and about it, then stop thinking, and pray. It really is that simple.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say you have to be the perfect pray-er for God to hear your prayers.
Nor does the Bible say they have to be perfect, eloquent, fancy prayers.
Just pray. And don't stop. It's really that easy.
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Pray First and 1 Kings 22:5

Pray first and foremost, all day and night long.
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1 Kings 22:5 Living Bible (TLB)
5 But,” he added, “we should ask the Lord first, to be sure of what he wants us to do.”
Living Bible (TLB). The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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Prayer and 1 Thessalonians 5:6

Do you ever toss and turn at night?
Think you might have insomnia?
Do you ever wake up really early wide awake?
Have you thought how this might be a call to prayer by God?
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1 Thessalonians 5:6 Living Bible (TLB)
6 So be on your guard, not asleep like the others. Watch for his return and stay sober.
Living Bible (TLB). The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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Prayer and Romans 12:12

PRAYER
I pray this verse to help me gain as much wisdom from the prayer verse of the day as possible:
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James 1:5 New Living Translation (NLT)
5 If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.
New Living Translation (NLT). Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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PRAYER VERSE OF THE DAY:
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Romans 12:12 Living Bible (TLB)
12 Be glad for all God is planning for you. Be patient in trouble, and prayerful always.
-- Living Bible (TLB). The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Original source:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12:12&version=TLB
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Lord, help me to pray at all times, and to live the rest of the verse as well.
As I remember what you have done, and count my blessings for what You are doing, I am to pray at all times, always, without stopping. Lord, teach me how.
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IT'S YOUR TURN
Prayer journal your thoughts and a prayer about this verse.

Prayer and Psalm 5:3: A Daily Devotional and Bible Study

MAY I ASK YOU A FAVOR?: PERSONAL EACH BLOG POST AND PRAYER JOURNALING ENTRY
Readers and friends, as you read this blog, can you personalize it for yourself?
I am writing this blog as a prayer journal. Everything shared and learned about prayer will be a prayer journaling entry. So, when I say I, me, my, put yourself in there in the blog post and prayer journaling entry and turn the prayer into one you offer to God.
After all, the theme of this blog will be: Life is one continual, never-ending prayer.
As we learn about prayer, and what the Bible says and teaches about prayer, we will pray.
The beauty about doing this blog in this manner, me writing the posts and you reading them, is each blog post and journal entry will be timeless.
Thank You, Lord.
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Psalm 5:3 Living Bible (TLB)
3 Each morning I will look to you in heaven and lay my requests before you, praying earnestly.
Living Bible (TLB)
The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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How do I pray, Lord?
When should I pray?
What should I pray?
Psalm 5:3 answers all of these questions in part.
Lord, this tells me to pray each morning and it gives me an example of how. I am to look to You, literally and figuratively. If I actually look up toward the heavens, it puts my heart and mind into the attitude of prayer. It is a physical reminder. It acknowledges You, Father.
Then, I pray my prayer requests, and I do so earnestly.
Here is another version or translation of the verse:
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Psalm 5:3 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
3 At daybreak, Lord, You hear my voice;
at daybreak I plead my case to You and watch expectantly.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB). Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.
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Lord this verse, in this version or translation of the Bible, adds another component as to prayer and when to pray and how to pray.
At daybreak.
This suggests getting up early intentionally to pray.
Pausing. I am letting that sink in for a moment.
What would be wrong, Lord, with me making this a practice--and an intentional one at that?
And, I am to present my requests to You like I am pleading a case.
Pause.
As I write this on June 17, 2015, the Aurora Movie Theatre Shootings Trial is now entering its thirty-third day and we just found out the fifth juror was released today. I live in Colorado and have family who lives near the theater, so this means something to me.
Have I prayed eight hours a day for thirty-three days about my requests, like the trial and pleading a case suggests? (Never mind without ceasing.)
No. I have not prayed this earnestly. Nor have I prayed with expectation to Your response.
There are several things here that I have learned and been reminded of, Abba, and I thank You for this. Please help me to learn all the lessons, all of the information, this verse teaches--and help me to apply all of them to my life and my prayer life. To You be all of the glory. Thank You, Lord.

IT'S YOUR TURN
Prayer journal your thoughts, along with what you learned, and present your requests as a case in a court of law.
And, plan on praying earnestly early in the morning each day.

Welcome to a new blog

Welcome. This is a new blog about everything you ever wanted to know about prayer (including prayer journaling and what's the Bible says about prayer).

It's my goal to make this blog a collection of thoughts, journaling, daily devotionals about prayer and links to blogs, blog posts, and books about prayer.

Welcome to Prays 247365, where it is my/our goal to learn to pray morning, noon, and night and about all things.