How To Maintain A Discipline and Consistent Prayer Life
Maintaining a discipline and consistent prayer life is hard but obtainable. The most valuable asset in your walk with GOD is your prayer life. So make no second thoughts about it. Your prayer life is the first thing that the devil is going to attack.
When it’s time to pray, your flesh and the devil will team up together to stop you from praying. You’ll begin to think about the laundry, the kid’s homework, and taking the meat out of the freezer for tomorrow’s dinner. Anything that can be thought of will come to your mind when it’s time to pray.
Don’t let this trick of the enemy fool you. There is a reason Jesus said, “Pray without ceasing”. He mentioned it because it’s necessary to remain close to God and to remain far from the devil.
Today, I’m going to share five ways to keep your fire hot at all times! We don’t do Luke warm around here!
Schedule Your Prayer Times
Set a routine! When I gave my life to Jesus almost three years ago, I knew that prayer was priority. I was raised in church as a child, but I did not have a relationship with Jesus until I was 33. I recognized that prayer was a part of Christianity, but I never did it on my own and I never took it seriously until I had to.
I’ve always been the girl who’s 100% in or 100% out. So, when I decided to be 100% in with Jesus. I went all in. I set alarms in my phone for 4:00am, 7:00am (corporate prayer line), 12:00pm (scripture confessions), 5:00pm, and 9:00pm prayer. No matter what or where I was, I stopped and prayed! I would go to my car to get away and talk to God.
I established that commitment for one year and my world changed drastically!! My family members were receiving healing and being set free from demonic spirits. My relationship with God was growing and growing! I was learning to His character traits, receiving prophetic downloads, revelations, and a lot of dreams!! The dreams I was receiving were manifesting in real time.
I was learning God’s voice which cause the relationship and intimacy between us to grow. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. To this day, my favorite part about my relationship with God is our conversations. All of that came from never missing those prayer times and making sure I showed up! Consistency is key! Remember that!
I committed to God, and I knew He was waiting for me to show up to our prayer date so I couldn’t miss it! Every time I would come to prayer, he would tell me things. As I continued my walk with Him, the prophecies He shared with me weeks before were unfolding before my eyes. He kept me wanting more so; I showed up no matter what.
Pray When The Holy Spirit Prompts You To Pray
Setting my schedule brought me to the honeymoon stage with God. I used to joke with my mom that God was “My God” and I would rather not share Him with anyone else. God really is the love of my life and that first year landed me here. Now, on the other hand, the hater of all haters started doing what? Hating on me!
The enemy and his monitoring spirits began taking note of when I would pray and would make things happen at that time. I started experiencing out of the ordinary sleepiness in the morning and began missing my morning prayers. Both of them! My job began to work overtime, so I was missing my 5:00pm prayer. It was bad! I was feeling very guilty and ashamed that I was missing my prayer dates until God said, re-strategize!
So I began praying when the Holy Spirit prompted me to pray and it worked! The Holy Spirit is your guide. He will always lead you in the right direction.
Before You Pray, Have a List of Who and What You Are Going To Pray For
It’s a horrible feeling to make a schedule, wake up early to pray, and then you can’t think of anything to pray about. Pick up a prayer journal, create a list and ask God, who does He want on your list. When God gives you the list of subjects and people He wants you to pray for, don’t stop praying for them until you see a breakthrough. Scratch it off the list and add something else.
THE NUMBER ONE PERSON/PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE ON YOUR LIST IS YOUR ENEMIES!!! Put them on the list and pray that God blesses them with salvation and things that they need.
The reason I said ask the Holy Spirit who to pray for is because it causes you to be intimate with Him. Sometimes He has already turned some individuals over to a reprobate mind. God knows everything, so he recognizes whether a person is going to make Jesus Lord over their life or not. He also will direct you on how to pray for them.
Many people that you know live secret lifestyles that you may not know about and may have made evil agreements. So it’s good to check in with God and ask Him who, how, and what to pray for.
Gather Scriptures. Remind God Of His Word
When it’s time to go to war, NEVER show up without your sword which is the Word Of GOD! The devil melts like butter on a hot skillet when you call out God’s precious word! Life and death are in the power of the tongue! Which one will you declare?
Speak life! The Word Of God is life!! The devil and his agents can’t take it. Whatever it is that you are petitioning God for, have all the scriptures regarding it and say them throughout the day! You will memorize them and begin saying them in your sleep. No, I’m serious. You will begin to have dreams of your quoting scriptures against people in your dreams. Watch how your way of life and the people you are praying for life’s change once you’ve spoken the Word Of God. It’s so powerful!
Conversations with God
Finally, my favorite type of prayer. Just having a plain old conversation with God, like you are on the phone with your dad because you are! I talk to God about all of my daily task. Down to what he thinks I should wear that day. What I should eat, He even pushes me in the gym like a trainer.
Get in the habit of asking Him about everything. Especially the little things. Don’t just ask Him is this the man I should marry? Is this the house I should purchase? Ask Him, should I dine at this restaurant? What do you think I should purchase my spouse for their birthday? It’s a relationship!!
Jesus said the church is His bride! Jesus also gave us a parable about how God is our Father. It’s all about getting intimate with God and letting God use you for His glory!
Prayer Hack
If you ever find it challenging to get into God’s presence when it’s time to pray, it’s because you were filling your eye gate, ear gate, and spirit man with things that are not Godly. It’s so much easier to pray and worship when you have been praying, listening to the word, a sermon, or worship music all day.
Read Three Prayer Strategies to Elevate Your Prayer Life and What Are Offensive Prayer And Defensive Prayers to take your prayer life to the next level!
Let’s make a challenge! Try these tips for 30 days straight and let’s see how your prayer life changes. I would love to hear back from you to find out how these tips benefit you. Using these tips helped me tremendously, and I pray they bless you, the way they blessed me.
With Love,
Your Sister Tiffani!
