A Guide To Intercessory Prayer
From 60 Seconds To 60 Minutes with God
by Rev. Richard W. LaFountain



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The Struggle To Pray
M ost of us struggle with prayer. Our lives are so busy from dawn to dark that there is little, if any, time for quiet moments alone with God. We trade our walk with God for a pot of porrige. We cheat ourselves out of the richest experiences God has to offer by not learning the art of intercessory prayer.

Intercessory prayer is not easy. It does not come naturally. It must be learned in the school of personal discipline. It will not come to us. We must pursue it.We must to want it bad enough to sacrifice treasured activities to have it.

This is a training course in intercessory prayer. It is born out of the struggle that all of us feel. It begins with the simple discipline of "being still" and grows from there. We start with 1 minute alone with God and grow from there. A three-minute egg timer will become your best friend as you seek to discipline your mind and heart in prayer. It is based on 12 biblical steps of intercession. Begin with one step. Learn that well until you can discipline yourself to spend three minutes on it without distraction. When you learn all of them begin small with one minute on each. From there grow strong and disciplined in your intercession. You may not be able to do this plan EVERY DAY but while you learn it make yourself do it every day for 4-6 weeks. That will build habit into your prayer time. Then use the plan several times a week for intense intercession. Use it in your all-day prayer retreats or in extended times of fasting and prayer. Expand your exercise from 3 minutes to an hour on each when you are doing an all-night or all-day intercession. Pastors, use it as a guide to intercession in your Prayer Meetings. It will revitalize your prayer times and train your people at the same time.




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