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 My Daily Prayers

After we are saved, we stay connected to God by daily reading of and meditating on the Holy Bible, worship and prayer. This daily communion with God is important for our spiritual growth, just as daily contact with our family is important for family cohesion. 

Beyond our daily communion with God should be a desire to know Him more and follow Him closely, and that is my desire and pursuit in life. If we want a closer walk with God, we should be ready to give him our hearts, not just make room for Him there. We should desire to know His ways; what pleases Him and what does not, and live to honour Him. We should be ready to take our cross daily by laying down our agendas for His, being obedient to Him in all things and being prepared to go where He sends us and do what He says, without taking thought of the consequences. 

Enoch, Abraham, and Noah walked with God, and He credited their faith. God called David “a man after His heart who will do all His will” (Acts 13:22), because David pursued God and pleased Him. He sought after and guarded his fellowship with God, had deep reverence for God and His dealings in his life. David was quick to repent of anything that disrupted his fellowship with God. 

God wants our hearts and has called us into fellowship with Jesus Christ, His Son, and we should do all we can to maintain our fellowship with Him.

I start my daily prayers with adoration, worship and thanksgiving for the night’s rest and the new day. Following this, I pray for any pending issues and anything I sense that I should pray for, then I pray for my family and myself. In praying for myself, I pray for a closer walk with God, and commit my day’s activities to Him to guide me. He knows what I need, where the opportunities and challenges are, the places I must go to, and the things I must do. I also have periods of quiet reflections on Him during the day. 

In recent years, I pray for my old age; that my body and mind will continue to function normally, and that I will continue to bear fruit and be relevant to my family, church and nation. God promised to be with us in old age, saying: “Even to your old age, I am He, and even to grey hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you” (Isaiah 46:4). He also promised to satisfy us with long life and show us His salvation (Psalm 91:16). 

By making prayer a daily habit you can rely on the established practice of turning to God and can draw on your reservoir of prayers and declarations to help you in time of need.

I hope that sharing my pattern for daily prayers will be an encouragement, and help as you develop or strengthen your daily prayers.