7 Steps To Intercede And Endure In Prayer For One Hour
Steps on how to pray to God for an hour :
These steps are not the only order or way to pray, by any means. These are just 7 steps to a basic structure of prayer and learning to endure in prayer.
1. Open in Praise
During the first ten minutes, open up in praise to the Lord. Praise Him for your ability to have access to Him. Praise Him because He is a God who hears your prayers.
“By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.”
2. Prayers of confession
Use the next five minutes to confess your sins unto God. Repent for all sins, iniquities, and demonic open doors - both known and unknown. Repent on behalf of your forefathers, ancestors, and bloodline.
“I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.”
3. Prayers of Petition
During the next ten minutes, petition the Lord for any concerns that may come into your spirit. Make your petitions and requests known to God.
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”
4. Prayers of Thanksgiving
These next five minutes will be used for thanksgiving unto God. Thank Him that He has heard your prayer and is already working on behalf of you and has gone yet ahead of you. Thank Him that his will, will be done.
“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
An Hour of Prayer Breakdown
5. Song and Worship
These next five minutes piggyback off of the last five where your thanksgiving may move into full out worship. The Lord loves and deserves worship. Worship Him as this too is apart of prayer.
“The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.”
6. Prayers of Intercession
Now these next 20 minutes will be for prayers of intercession. Pray for all people, places, and things that come to mind that the Lord is calling you to intercede for and on behalf of.
“I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men”
7. Close in praise
Within these last five minutes you will close out in praise. Allow this praise to continue until you feel a release from God.
“O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.”
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