ADPD and WMD - What?

A few simple hints that will help us overcome Attention Deficit Prayer Disorder (ADPD) and Weapons of Mass Distraction (WMD).


Focused Prayer. Prayer Time. God Speaking - These seem to be oxymoron's, and yet they are not. We can experience a time of speaking to God and hearing from God during focused prayer. In order to help you overcome ADPD and WMD and experience a more fruitful time of prayer try the following:

1. Make the time and find a place for prayer. Carve out some time during a day and in the week to spend time with God. Find a place or places that allow you some silence and stillness in your life.

2. Start short. Five minutes is a great place to start. If you go over five minutes that is fine. Just start. A good way to start is stat short.

3. Develop a system. You use systems everyday. You have a system for waking in the morning, preparing for the day, progressing through the day, ending the day, etc. You may realize you are using systems, but you are. Developing a system or plan for your prayer life will help you stay focused. Develop a pattern or patterns that help guide you. You can use the acrostic of ACTS = Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication. You can focus on your family, including you, then move to your friends, and then begin to speak to God and hear from God about your daily and weekly schedule. A system I use during the day to help me stay in tune with God is STP = Stop, think, Pray. During the day when I am transitioning from one event to another I will take just a few seconds to stop (pause), think (reflect), and pray (a whisper to God or just seek to listen). STP happens in a matter of seconds and is a simple system.

4. Keep in mind that prayer is about a relationship. Prayer is conversation God. Prayer is communicating with God. God desires to relate to you. He takes pleasure in your time with Him. You do not need any magical words or have to know any big churchey words in order to pray. Just begin to speak to God and He will listen and answer.

5. CHANGE. Change will occur in you life as you begin to pray. Be open to God and allow Him to work in your life as you grow in your relationship with Him and others through prayer.

6. Stay at it. If you fall short of a desired goal or time that you had planned for prayer take a "do over" and give prayer another effort. Ask God to strengthen you. He will and you  will begin with a fresh start.

7. Find a partner, a prayer partner, that you can call on a weekly basis and spend time praying a few minutes over the phone. This does not take long, is fairly simple to begin, and yet the "pay off" of praying weekly with a friend will be encouraging to you and the prayer partner.

My Life A Prayer

Lord, grant me a joyful heart and a holy sense of humor. Please give me the gift of faith to be renewed and shared with others each day. Teach me to live this moment only, looking neither to the past with regret, nor the future with apprehension. Let love be my aim and my life a prayer. Holy Humor, Cal and Rose Samra

Do Not Be Afaid

 

A Call From Jesus

Pray - Quotes

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness. - Richard C. Trench.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it. - John Wesley.

Prayer requires more of the heart than the tongue. - Adam Clarke.

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. - Guy H. King.

Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but do not neglect Him. - Oswald Chambers

I am so busy. How can I find time to pray? Ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of all the sin of having no time to pray. - Corrie ten Boom

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending His will to ours, but it is the main way of submitting our will to His. - John Stott

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. - E.M. Bounds

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach. - Charles Spurgeon

The man who mobilizes the Christian Church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history. - Andrew Murray

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, and despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. - Sidlow Baxter

Prayer is where the action is. - John Wesley

The greatest tragedy in life Is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer. - F.B. Meyer

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence and secures His aid. - E.M. Bounds

If Christians spent as much time praying as they do grumbling, they soon would have nothing to grumble about. - Anonymous

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I do not, they don’t. - William Temple

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit which may be the only hindrance to the gift for which you ask. - D.L. Moody

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. - Martin Luther

Whatever else prayer may be, it is intended to be a sharing and taking counsel with God on mattes of importance to Him and His Kingdom. God has called you to attend a celestial board meeting to deliberate with Him on matters of Divine destiny. - John White

There is only one limit to what prayer can do; that is what God can do. R.A. Torrey

When a Christian  shuns fellowship with other Christians the devil smiles. When he stops reading the Bible the devils laughs, but when he stops praying the devil shouts for joy. - Corrie ten Boom

Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness. - Phillip Brooks

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving one another. - Jean Paul Ritcher

Prayer does not lead to greater works, it is the greater work. - Oswald Chambers

Trouble and perplexity drive us to prayer, and prayer drives away trouble and perplexity. - Phillip Melanchthon

Hurry is the death of prayer. - Samuel Chadwick

Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all, pray. - R.A. Torrey

Dear Lord, never let me be afraid to pray for the impossible - Dorothy Shellenberger

Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer. - D. Martin Lloyd Jones

We are too busy to pray, and so we are to be to have power. R. A. Torrey

Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, and the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray then my dear brother; pray, pray, pray. - Edward Payson

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. - D.L. Moody

God is looking for a people through whom He can do the impossible - what a pity we plan only the things we can do. - A.W. Tozer

Lunch Break Prayer For Missions

Father in Heaven,

During this brief pause in the day I want to thank you for lunch, work, small businesses and my health. God, I lift up to you the Missions Emphasis for the BGAV during this week. I join thousands of your servants who are calling out to You. Hear our prayers. Please say, "Yes." to our request. God, I want to see your Spirit move in a mighty way. I thank You for the mighty work You are doing in Ghana Africa and ask You to do the same in the US. I thank You for the opportunity I have had to plant a Church and I ask that hundreds of more Churches be planted in Virginia. Please provide the servants and funding needed.

Lord, thank you for the ladies who gathered last night and called out to You and participated in mission work - THANK YOU. Strengthen and empower those ladies today. 

Author and Provider of Salvation may all of the mission work through the BGAV bring people to You, develop disciples, and bring You glory.

In Christ's Name, Amen. 

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