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Welcome to 10 Daily Prayers (An Introduction)

WELCOME TO 10 DAILY PRAYERS (AN INTRODUCTION)
Welcome to a new blog post series. It will be my main focus of this blog and is called,
10 Daily Prayers: A Prays 247365 Book of Prayer
After much prayer, reading of current events in the news and discussing them, pondering, reading of the Word, analyzing, rather viewing of my prayer journaling, and trial and error, I have decided that the last thing the world needs is another how to pray blog or book. Rather, what we sure could use are daily prayers, set-up in a format to remind us of everyone and everything we need to pray about, and help us to pray 247365.
And, the prayers need to be focused, but open, so we have room to pray our own prayers, but have guidance and a reminder of what to pray. Therefore, a prayer for each dimension in our lives, and a guidance for each, would be helpful.
I figured out there are 16 hours in a day most of us are awake. I also figured out how there are tend dimensions in our lives that need prayer.Therefore, if we pray 1.5 hours (on average) for each dimension, we pray for the most important aspects in our lives that the Bible tells us to look at and focus on in prayer--and we end up praying all night and day long.
I'm calling each of the dimensions, 10 Daily Prayers. Each of the 10 Daily Prayers have nine prayer points for us to touch on in the one and a half hours we pray each of the 10 Daily Prayers. Here are the 10 Daily Prayers:

10 Daily Prayers
1 Self
2 House
3 Family and Friends
4 Block and Neighborhood
5 City or Town
6 Your Church and Denomination
7 State
8 Nation
9 The Church as a Whole and All Believers
10 The World
And here are nine prayer points for each of the 10 daily prayers. In other words, we will pray the nine prayer points for each of the 10 daily prayers. The nine prayer points are:

9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers
A Worship
B Thanks
C His Will
D Ask: Needs and Wants
E News
F Confession
G Lead and Guide
H Deliver from Evil
I Thanks
Let me include a note right now as far as the couple of the daily prayers that include the block in which you live, neighborhood, town, or city. Make sure to pray for the people, businesses, houses, and churches in each.
Also, your house prayer is for your home and e everyone and everything in it and around it.
I will share prayers to pray for each of the 10 daily prayers, but they are just the starting place. They are not all you should pray. The prayers are just intended to help you get started. You have room to pray the specific prayers you are led to pray beyond that.
I will include a template of the 10 Daily Prayer Points and the 9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers so you can pray your own prayers at the end of this blog post. You can copy and paste them for your daily prayer journaling. This template gives you the most freedom to pray your own prayers.
However, I am also including prayers for each of the 10 Daily Prayers as well on this blog for now on. I will do this for 5 days a week. I will leave 2 days open for you to pray without ceasing for wherever God leads, as well as for your review. Read everything you prayer journaled the previous week. Then, make sure during your two off days you write down all of the answers to prayer and a list of important prayers you want to continue to pray for over the next week for each of the 10 Daily Prayers and 9 Prayer Points.
Now, let me explain.

AN EXPLANATION OF EACH OF THE 9 PRAYER POINTS
9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers
A Worship
Worship God for who He is.
B Thanks
Thank God for the blessings of the specific prayer point and for what He has done in it and for it.
C His Will
Pray His will be done.
D Ask: Needs and Wants
List all of the prayers and prayer requests for this Daily Prayer.
E News
What have you heard about in the news media that applies to this one of the 10 Daily Prayers.
Share any news you have about this prayer.
F Confession
Confess on their behalf for any wrongdoing.
G Lead and Guide
Ask God to lead and guide everything you have prayed regarding this one of the 10 Daily Prayers.
H Deliver from Evil
This is what you think. Ask God to keep them from temptation, to keep them from any and all evil, and deliver them from evil.
I Thanks
Thank God for hearing and answer everything you have prayed.
Of course, at any time, prayer journal if anything else comes to mind. Just make sure to pray all 10 Daily Prayers each day. This is merely a guide to help us learn to pray, and pray, without stopping. It's also meant to make sure us pray about all of the dimensions God wants us pray and not forget or neglect one.
I realize all of this can be a little overwhelming and intimidating. However, start off small and pray throughout your day and night, not all at once (unless you need to because life happens and got in the way of your prayers). Devote 5 minutes each day for the first week to each of the 10 Daily Prayers and the 9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers, for a total of 50 minutes stretched throughout your day.
Then, the following week, pray 10 minutes for each. Increase your prayer five minutes for each of the 10 Daily Prayers per week until you pray ninety minutes or so for each of the 10 Daily Prayers.
However, God may put something on your heart. Pray for that portion of the 10 Daily Prayers the most if it really weighs on you.
This 10 Daily Prayers and their 9 Prayer Points is just a guide. Nothing more. It's meant to be a reminder and bring inspiration. It's a guide to help us remember to pray for a great deal more each day that what we think of. It helps us slow down, look around, listen, and pray.
Another thing to remember is the prayers I include for each of the 10 Daily Prayers can be prayed for any of the 10 Daily Prayers and their 9 Prayer Points. If the prayer I have written for you to pray does nothing for you, find one that does from another daily prayer or day and/or pray your own prayer. Go where the Spirit leads, but make sure to pray all the 10 Daily Prayer dimensions each day, so we do not neglect anyone or so for prayer.
Welcome. Let's pray.

THE 10 DAILY PRAYERS AND 9 PRAYER POINTS FOR EACH OF THE 10 DAILY PRAYER TEMPLATE
Day #
10 Daily Prayers: A Prays 247365 Book of Prayer
Daily Prayers 
1 Self
2 House
3 Family and Friends
4 Block and Neighborhood
5 City or Town
6 Your Church and Denomination
7 State
8 Nation
9 The Church as a Whole and All Believers
10 The World
9 Prayer Points for Each of the 10 Daily Prayers
A Worship
B Thanks
C His Will
D Ask: Needs and Wants
E News
F Confession
G Lead and Guide
H Deliver from Evil
I Thanks

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.

News Prayer Point

Every now and then, I will share a news article that is a prayer point. This is one such article.

I thought you might be interested in this article:

Title: "New low: ISIS reportedly gives away sex slaves as 'prizes' in Koran contest"

ISIS has already committed countless unspeakable acts on Yazidi and Christian girls and women in Iraq, but the terrorist army may have reached a new low with a twisted new contest in which female slaves captured in war are given away as "prizes" to fighters who show the have mastered the Koran.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/06/22/new-low-isis-reportedly-gives-away-sex-slaves-as-prizes-in-koran-contest/

New low: ISIS reportedly gives away sex slaves as 'prizes' in Koran contest

I thought you might be interested in this article:

ISIS has already committed countless unspeakable acts on Yazidi and Christian girls and women in Iraq, but the terrorist army may have reached a new low with a twisted new contest in which female slaves captured in war are given away as "prizes" to fighters who show the have mastered the Koran.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/06/22/new-low-isis-reportedly-gives-away-sex-slaves-as-prizes-in-koran-contest/

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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