How Long Must I Pray

<span style="font-weight: 400;">How long must we pray?</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Simple declarations of faith (short </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">prayers) or very long prayers?</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The balance for the believer is that his prayer life must comprise of long and short prayers if his prayer must be effective; the effectiveness of his short prayers is dependent on the long prayers he has made in the secret. 1 Thes 5</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">:17.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Jesus in as much as he made proclamations, also spent hours fellowshipping with God. Jhn 12.28, Lk 10:21. 1Thes 5:17.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Long prayers consecrate us; it gives us access to divine encounters that reveals the glory of God to us &amp; what the glory of God does is that it exposes our hypocrisy &amp; corrects our inconsistencies.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Genuine encounters realign our </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">minds with the will of God &amp; bring us to a point of honesty with the true state of our minds. It is the believer s security. (1Thes 5:17, Lk 18.1)</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is noteworthy that what is most important in prayer is not the duration, it is our motive, our perseverance, our consistency, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">our tenacity, our concentration &amp; our conviction; a structure we can only build with perseverance in prayer.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Without consistency (discipline), we cannot have a prayer life. We must pray even when we don't feel like it.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">It also takes prayer for the word of God to take hold of our minds; so we pray to build our conviction.</span>