A SIMPLE PATTERN FOR DAILY PRAYER
Taken from Dr. Gregory Frizzell’s book, How to Develop a Powerful Prayer Life.

RAISE! Begin with a period of praise and thanksgiving (5-10 minutes).
1. Give thanks for past, present, and future blessings.
2. Praise God for who He is (His characteristics and names).
3. Freely worship and adore Him.
EPENTANCE! Continue with confession and repentance (at least 5-10 minutes).
1. Ask God to search your thoughts and attitudes.
2. Carefully examine your speech.
3. Ask God to thoroughly search your relationships.
4. Confess any sins of commission and be sure to forsake the sins God reveals.
5. Confess any sins of omission and make a definite commitment to obedience.
6. Resolve to fully repent of any known sin of thought, word or deed.
7. Ask God to fill you with the Holy Spirit.
8. Be sure to utilize a thorough biblical tool (such as the one on pages 56-68) designed to search all areas of your life with God’s Word.
NTERCESSION! Continue with Prayers of Intercession (10-20 minutes).
1. Pray for needs of family and friends.
2. Pray for your pastor and church (use specific prayers such as found on pages 84 and
following).
3. Pray for specific lost people (use specific prayers such as found on page 83).
4. Pray for missionaries and mission efforts (use guides from the International Mission Board).
5. Pray for revival and spiritual awakening (use guides on page 84).
6. In your intercession, seek to be as specific as possible.
a.. Also remember the value of focusing on only two or three categories per day.
b. If you thoroughly prayed for every category, you could literally pray for hours.
Though some may be led to pray for hours, most people will be led to focus on
certain categories on certain days.
d. As always, the guiding principle is close sensitivity to the Holy Spirit.
UPPLICATION! Follow with Prayers of Personal Petition (10-15 minutes).
1. Pray for the development of character and holiness (Pray through the specific fruits of
the Holy Spirit or other character words).
2. Pray for your ministry and service to God (be very specific in your prayers).
3. Pray for physical, emotional, spiritual or financial needs.
EDITATION! End with Meditation and Assessment.
1. Reflect on key points of your Scripture reading and prayer time.
2. Assess what God has impressed to your heart.
3. Write down key impressions in a daily journal.
4. End your time with thanksgiving for God’s presence.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
If you will commit to significant daily time with God, not even the sky is the limit to what He will do in your life (Ephesians 3:20).
Daily Bible reading is essential to your prayer life.
I suggest you do your Bible reading and journaling before you conduct your main prayer time.
I highly recommend that you follow one of today’s excellent schedules for reading through the entire Bible at least once a year.
Fasting is a normal part of a Christian’s life. The Bible clearly assumes that God’s people will fast in their devotion to the Lord.
Though an hour is an excellent goal, I am not implying that you must pray a whole hour in order to experience a powerful prayer life.
MAY GOD HELP US SETTLE FOR NOTHING LESS THAN A
POWERFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIMSELF.

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