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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- St. Augustine

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Daily Prayer


It's been noted that prayer is as essential for a Christian as breathing. If so the lack of prayer today among believers is serious indeed. Perhaps even more problematic are the underlying causes for the alarming rate of prayerlessness among the faithful, including the growing worldliness of modern Christians, as well as a the troubling issue of the apparent distance and silence of God.

Please see our many articles on this vital subject in the sidebar and our Quantum Christianity Book Library.


But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

- Matthew 6:6 NIV


Prayer is an interesting study. To billions the idea of talking to God seems pointless or even ludicrous. Billions of others consider it perfectly rational for created beings to speak with their Creator and Savior. Encouraged and commanded to regularly pray, Christians who do report a wide variety of experiences. These range from nothing at all to answers bordering on the miraculous.


While thoughts and feelings on the subject vary, certain aspects regarding prayer can be discovered fairly simply. Chief among them is the glaring need for it. From the presence of pain and suffering, to our ability to hope and dream, humanity's constant desire is to better its condition. Recovering the all but lost art of strategic personal and corporate prayer plays an essential role in achieving this and every goal.



Believe that He is...

As in all of life there are rules or directives in seeking God. Many New Testament passages address this vital topic such as the following verse:

  • "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." Hebrews 11:6

"Believing that He is" carries many connotations, beginning with "mental assent" that God exists and is the God of the Bible. Yet, such a foundation is wise, it is far from all that God requires for salvation, as revealed in Jesus judging His Church in the Book of Revelation.


...A Rewarder

This verse, along with hundreds of the Bible's promises, offers encouragement that God notes and responds to our legitimate efforts to seek Him.

Certainly prayer ranks among the top ways to do so. Then why do literally billions of prayers seem to go unanswered for months and years, decades and lifetimes? At Solomon's dedication of God's temple the Lord send fire from heaven, fill the edifice with His glory and promise the following:

"If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek Me face and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear from Heaven, forgive their sins and heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14


...of those who Diligently Seek Him

God did audibly make that promise to Solomon and His people. Yet notice this Perfect Formula for Repentance requires four steps of real effort on our part including turning from original sin and modern day variations.

Here we confront a glaring problem demonstrated by prayerlessness, as well as many other indicators. Almost to person the modern church lacks the appropriate and due dedication or Diligence when it comes to pursuing and pleasing God.


Without Prayer We Haven't Got One

Moving God, men and circumstances are among the chief reasons to pray. Doing so requires learning and practicing the art of prayer. Fully dependent on the love, mercy and faithfulness of God, the wise Christian daily intercedes for the needs of family and friends, neighbors and the world in which we live. Spontaneous praying throughout the day, the true intercessor knows that scheduled sessions of quality prayer are even more vital. Learning to wait on God and caring enough to fast frequently and acceptably are crucial components in overcoming such entrenched enemies as demonic resistance orchestrated by the Evil One Jesus warns of in the Lord's prayer.

The brilliant 17th Century scientist and Christian thinker Blaise Pascal sadly noted that during His passion, as Christ agonized in prayer, sweating great drops of blood "all Jesus' friends were asleep and enemies awake. It is the same to this day..." How few are those today who are willing to hear Christ's warning echoing down through the millennia, "Could you not tarry with me one hour? Pray that you might not enter into temptation."

Those listening to "what the Spirit is saying to the churches" are willing to hear and respond to the Lord's plaintive and solemn admonition to pray every day for the things nearest our hearts and necessary for the salvation and sanctification of those dear to us. Crying out to God for repentance, revival and the power of God should be daily commitments.

The reasons for prayer are as numerous as its benefits. These include but are not limited to the following:

1. As a reasonable response to the realities and hazards of mankind’s precarious existence.

2. A desire to know and please our Creator and Savior.

3. To organize and express as well as work through our thoughts and feelings.

4. To seek relief from anxiety and fear.

5. To obtain Divine help in times of need for ourselves and family.

6. To petition and thank God for resources.

7. To intercede on the behalf of others friends and neighbors.

8. To understand why we are here.

9. To comprehend the ether glorious or horrifying eternal consequences of earthly life.

10. To champion the cosmic struggle that has marred the history of heaven, daily overflowing into humanity's, as a war in heaven and Earth between light and dark, good and evil, God and Satan.


Good Place Start

Daily prayer is a good starting point to launch or invigorate a lifestyle of seriously seeking God.

There are several ways to begin, from "winging it" to schedules time for daily prayer. Additionally there are at least seven different methods of modes of prayer one might utilize.

Those understanding "the times and the seasons" realize that nothing short of Pre-Revival Repentance offers the promise of hope in experience a New Pentecost of the scope so desperately needed today. Such Prophetic Christians do well to craft a strategic daily prayer encompassing personal and corporate repentance and requests the likes of which might thaw hardened hearts and produce the kind of sanctification sorely lacking in our wicked and perverse generation.

As a template I offer my personal daily prayer developed and memorize over a decade.


Update 2022

For my part I've spent 40 years strategically seeking and serving God with a single focus:

1. Is Modern Christianity and/or Churchianity working?
2. If not, why?

As a Charismatic minister, with better than average understanding of Biblical truth, the journey led me to the following inconvenient truths

1. 1/3 of my doctrine was accurate.
2. 1/3 of my doctrine was in error.
3. 1/3 of the Bible's most crucial points were either undervalued or missing altogether.

Furthermore, I've found this sad equation is far more often the rule rather than the exception.

With this in mind I've sent over a decade developing a topical Biblical commentary entitled, Quantum Christianity, showcased on my site GodBlog.net.

This was all long before 2020...

If there was ever an acceptable time to confuse Christianity with a pleasure cruise, rather than a Battleship, those days are past.

As Paul warned: “And if the [war] bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?” 1 Corinthians 14:8 AMP

It should be abundantly clear things changed substantially in 2020. Nationally and globally, the world has never scene the like of even the following short list:

1. Covid-19 and variants, of questionable origin, mandates promoting and/or requiring untested and dangerous MRNA “vaccines” and “boosters” with negative efficacy and even deadly side effects revealing unprecedented control of healthcare and politics by the collusion of pharmaceutical companies and bureaucrats. To the point of threatening the removal of medical licenses of physicians prescribing safe and reliable treatments proven effective against respiratory and other illness. Example: In 2015 Ivermectin won the only Nobel Prize award for treatments of infectious diseases since six decades prior. Also report by Fortune Magazine (not right wing magazine) reveals that a simple home remedy of saline solution used for "Twice Daily Nose Flushing Can Reduce Covid Hospitalization and Death Researchers Find" by 85%. This study was conducted Fall 2020, and could have helped prevent 3/4 of Covid deaths.
  • Sample Daniel Horowitz: "Twice Daily Nose Flushing Can Reduce Covid Hospitalization and Death Researchers Find" by 85%
  • Sample Link: Steve Deace **9/15/22 Circumvent Medical Cartels with Dr. Harvey Risch** Simple straight talk from preeminent honored immunologist and cofounder of The Wellness Company TWC.health
  • Sample Link: **Ivermectin Nobel prize** In 2015, the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, in its only award for treatments of infectious diseases since six decades prior, honored the discovery of ivermectin (IVM), a multifaceted drug deployed against some of the world’s most devastating tropical diseases. Since March 2020, when IVM was first used against a new global scourge, COVID-19, more than 20 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have tracked such inpatient and outpatient treatments. Six of seven meta-analyses of IVM treatment RCTs reporting in 2021 found notable reductions in COVID-19 fatalities, with a mean 31% relative risk of mortality vs. controls. During mass IVM treatments in Peru, excess deaths fell by a mean of 74% over 30 days in its ten states with the most extensive treatments.
  • Sample Link: Daniel Horowitz: **The Risk of Cancer from Both the Shots and Perpetual Mask Wearing with Guest: Dr. Colleen Huber | 6/3/22** “Clot shots. Poisoning of Americans (World) beyond belief, as they prepare to stick babies as young ad 6 months old. HOW IS THIS NOT THE ISSUE OF OUR TIME? That it perpetuates the virus, destroys the immune system, and causes every ailment known to man… And yet to this day, it’s like it doesn’t exist. It’s a complete lockout…” “If you don’t get it you have your career destroyed. If you do get it you have your body destroyed. And then everything they plan on doing there on down with it. And everything it represents, with biomedical state, track/trace, transhumanism... Dr. Colleen Huber: Neither Safe Nor Effective: The Evidence Against the COVID Vaccines (Cancer Researcher/Get eBook).

2. Economic and institutional, social and quarantine lockdowns crippling businesses and institutions, education and families, from the elderly to children.

3. Individual mandates, social distancing and mask and "vaccine requirements restricting interaction, breathing and health.
  • Sample Link: Steve Deace: **A Clarion Call Go On The Offensive** Interview with Dr. Peter McCullough
  • Sample Link: Steve Deace: **8/24/22 The jobs/Dr. Ryan Cole**Excellent interview with Dr. Ryan Cole who has treated over 500,000 Covid patients and has impeccable credentials explaining the clot shots are extremely dangerous and genetically mutating.

4. BLM and Antifa’s spreading of widespread rioting and looting, violence and lawlessness in the name of blatantly FALSE narratives such as Critical Race Theory (CRT) and systemic police brutality. Both undermining the foundations of society by “calling good evil and evil good.” All the while elevating career felons like George Floyd to sainthood status while ignoring the plague of black on black violence and murder, particularly within liberally controlled inner cities like the Obama’s Chicago.

5. Campaigns of disinformation and destruction by the emerging Iron Triangle of liberal governments, legacy media and global corporations influencing and poisoning the hearts and minds of billions.
  • Sample Link: **Crimes or Cover Up** Glen Beck Exposing The Worlds Most Dangerous Lie: History of C19 conspiracy with dates and facts.

6. Wokism’s ridiculous and dangerous plandemic of social engineering’s impact on lower and higher education, spread by the super carriers mentioned above.

7. The impact of Transgenderism’s incoherent and devilish reversal of truth and goodness on genuine science and health care, parenting and morality, teens and children.

8. Political attack on democracy, particularly in the U.S. by election fraud, boarder crossing and registration tampering.

9. Worldwide manipulation and control of all the above, as well as governments and economies, national budgets and banking, healthcare and communication, goods and services… by global elites implementing a Great Reset thus instituting a New World Order.

10. Conservatives and Christians fail to appropriately respond:
Such atrocities, and more, have been researched and documented, warned against and explained in detail by reliable professionals in related fields. For just a few examples see sample links above.




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