Prayer is one of the most powerful weapons God has given us. And it is one of the most powerful forces on earth to invoke the assistance of heaven. A fervent man in prayer is a strong man indeed. What keeps you in command is a consistent prayer life.
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, ESV).
If you realize that you have slacked concerning your prayer life, then you should take the following steps to restore it to normalcy.
Here are 62 keys that have helped me develop a more powerful and effective prayer life. I hope they will encourage you and revive your prayer life
1. Memorize Scripture.
The most important key to a vibrant prayer life is to understand our spiritual authority in Christ as explained in the Scriptures. The only way to do that is to become intimately familiar with the Bible. Even a few minutes a day in the Word of God will add strength and authority to your prayer life
2. Take authority over all the spirits of prayerlessness and dryness.
Ask the Lord to rekindle the fire on your altar of prayer
3. Be baptized with the fire of the Holy Ghost and pray for the ability of speaking in other tongues for at-least 30 minutes every day
4. Permanently or temporarily join a prayer fellowship or a prayer band or repeatedly listen to prayer tapes, or Join a prayer group online like this in order to catch an immediate fire in your spirit.
5. Seek a prayer partner and pray together.
6. Raise a personal prayer altar.
7. Take your time to go to Christian camp or mountain.
8. Discover your own spiritual gifts and start developing it.
9. Give yourself an assignment that everyday you must read the Bible.
10. Increase your prayer times, makes them more frequent.
11. Fill and saturate your heart with God’s word before and after your prayers.
12. Learn to praise God before and after all your prayers.
13. Ask the Lord to give you the power to concentrate.
14. Make prayer covenants with God.
15. Keep the prayer covenants you have made with God.
16. Put your phone notifications in silent while praying or having a good time with the Lord.
17. Do not be doubtful, weak or faithless while praying.
18. Change the method of your prayer strategy. if one type of prayer is not working for you, change it.
19. Pray more because you want to hear from God. Don’t pray for the sake of praying.
20. Pray until something happens.
21. Fasting and prayers are working tools to unlock your deliverance. Fight against voices or thoughts trying to discourage you from this spiritual exercise.
22. Declare this regularly: I swallow the fire of the Holy Ghost.
23. Ask the Lord to give you a prayer burden.
24. If you discover your environment/friends/landlord/guardians/does not allow you to take warfare prayers, it is wise to pray silently or change your environment. With this, God will understand.
25. Convert every word of God into prayers.
26. Do not sit down, lying on the bed while praying, sometimes, go on your knee and pray or even walk around.
27. If your spirit ask you to pray silently, then pray silently.
28. If your spirit ask you to pray aloud, then pray aloud, but make sure your prayers does not constitute any nuisance to the ear of your neighbours.
29. Pray when you feel the presence of God.
30. Pray when you do not feel the presence of God.
31. Pray when you are happy.
32. Pray when you are unhappy.
33. Pray long and detailed prayers that could fill volumes of books.
34. Pray when answers come quickly.
35. Pray when there seem to be no answer.
36. Pray without ceasing.
37. Walk in purity so that your prayers may not be blocked.
38. Believe so much in your prayers.
39. Pray in the morning.
40. Pray late into the night.
41. If you have the time, pray the whole day and the whole night.
42. Pray like a wounded lion.
43. Pray when God is blessing you.
44. Pray when God is not blessing you.
45. Pray when you have seen a man to marry you. Pray even more when no man is coming at all.
46. Have it in your next plan to study your bible for 1 hour.
47. Pray more in the spirit more than in the flesh.
48. Pray when you are in doubt and faith will come.
49. Pray when you have much faith.
50. Pray when you have little faith.
51. Have the desire of becoming a prayer warrior with a difference.
52. Pray when you feel like praying, pray when you don’t feel like praying, pray until you feel like praying.
53. Pray more when you are ripe for marriage.
54. Set aside every first Saturday of the month as a special day for evangelism.
55. Don’t just pray to impress people around you or for people to know you are a praying Christian.
56. Go to your hide out often and meet your God. (Your hideout could be private room, church, camp etc)
57. Never give up on any prayer or fasting exercise until the Lord has answered you.
58. Write out the names of your loved ones and intercede on their behalf. Remember what Job did.
59. When you notice depression is all over you, turn into machine gun prayers.
60. When you notice loneliness is all over
you, get hook up with a prayer friend.
61. Keep your mouth from saying bad things. Remember you are using that same mouth to pray to God.
62. Watch and listen to messages that will set your prayer life on fire.
May the Lord revive your prayer life in Jesus name
Peoplesmind
