Praying with Your Family
By Derek Carter
Over the years, we have scheduled prayer time, relied on spontaneous prayer and been urged into our prayer closets by circumstances. For us, with our busy schedules and my unpredictable work schedule, the only way we have found to be consistent in prayer is to use a journal.
I resisted the idea for a time. However, the process of writing prayers has proven to be a faith builder and a fun family activity. Our family journal is filled with answered prayer. Rather personal in nature, we do not share its contents with others, but we welcome prayers from everyone..
It is simple:
First: Write down the prayer request in simple terms. We have found when a prayer request is too long, we rarely read through it
Second: Add scriptures to the request. We have found that praying the scriptures together to be quite powerful.
Third: We generally pray together but on days when I works late, or my wife retires early, (it occasionally happens), the requests in the prayer journal can still be prayed for daily without.
Fourth: Once the prayer is answered we put the date it was answered and continue praying for the other requests.
This simple method has kept us fairly consistent in praying together,
Derek Carter enjoys teaching couples about the process of forgiveness and apology.
By Derek Carter
Over the years, we have scheduled prayer time, relied on spontaneous prayer and been urged into our prayer closets by circumstances. For us, with our busy schedules and my unpredictable work schedule, the only way we have found to be consistent in prayer is to use a journal.
I resisted the idea for a time. However, the process of writing prayers has proven to be a faith builder and a fun family activity. Our family journal is filled with answered prayer. Rather personal in nature, we do not share its contents with others, but we welcome prayers from everyone..
It is simple:
First: Write down the prayer request in simple terms. We have found when a prayer request is too long, we rarely read through it
Second: Add scriptures to the request. We have found that praying the scriptures together to be quite powerful.
Third: We generally pray together but on days when I works late, or my wife retires early, (it occasionally happens), the requests in the prayer journal can still be prayed for daily without.
Fourth: Once the prayer is answered we put the date it was answered and continue praying for the other requests.
This simple method has kept us fairly consistent in praying together,
Derek Carter enjoys teaching couples about the process of forgiveness and apology.
