Category Archives: How to Pray

We all need help how to connect with God in prayer.

Morning Time

Time alone with God every morning before you start the day can make a big difference.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

The morning time is the best time to connect with God. Lets all concerns and fears be ignored. Just come to God with prayer, Bible reading, devotional reading, or anything that inspires you to touch and contact God. Some mornings can be difficult because of things that just bother us. Life is full of anxieties and things that just upset us. Some concerns just do not go away.  Right in the middle find a way to pray what God is praying. Don’t fret, just pray. Spending time with God helps us trust Him.

Psalms 57:7
My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing and give praise.

Morning Prayer

Psalm 88:13 But, I, unto thee, O Yahweh, have cried for help, And, in the morning, my prayer will confront thee!  The morning is the best time to spend time reading the Bible and praying.

Sunrise on the Sea of Galilee, Israel

Sunrise on the Sea of Galilee, Israel

Prayer and reading can set the day in the correct direction. The best time to pray is in the morning.

Prayer is a relationship with God that comes from spending time with God. The best time is in the morning before 50 thousand other things distract us. Morning time sets the day in the correct mode.

The Bible verse in Psalms is from the Rotherham emphasized translation.

Early Prayer in Psalms

Psalms 4:1
Answer Me When I Call
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.
A Psalm of David.

1 Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!

Come Lord Jesus

This is the prayer at the end of the Bible. It is the last prayer in the whole Bible. It is the second to the last verse of the Bible. It is the last prayer and almost the last verse in the book of Revelation. It is the finale, the last prayer made by God in the Bible. The final prayer “Come Lord Jesus”. What a conclusion to invite the Lord Lesus into everything in our life. Not just for Him to come again, as He will one day in His second coming, but to actually let Him be Lord in our lives. So let Him come in and bring our lives back to what He wants to do in us and through us.

Spokane River near Downtown in Spring

Spokane River near Downtown in Spring

God is real, a living person, the creator of the universe, the designer of the atom and DNA. He designed every solar system and every living thing on the earth. So He has plans for our life and what we do. So just pray this final prayer in the Bible from Revelation 22:2o  “Come Lord Jesus”

Revelation 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

To get a few more points on this topic, see the blog article on Jonah – When God speaks, He eventually gets His way.

Encouraging Morning Prayer – Bible Verses

Here is two wonderful encouraging Bible verses on prayer in the morning.

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Morning time is the best time to connect with God in the Bible and prayer – encouraging Bible verses – Multnomah Falls

Psalm 5:3 O Lord, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order my prayer unto thee, and will keep watch.  Notice the word “voice” in this verse. Sometimes we just can pray with our voice, we are not sure where our heart is nor what is the will of God.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Multnomah Falls, Oregon


Psalm 88:13 But unto thee, O Lord, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

These verses should be great encouragements for us to take the morning time to connect and contact God through prayer. Morning time is the best time to connect with God in the Bible and prayer

Confidence in Prayer

1 John 5:14-15. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will. he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

What a peace do these verses bring to us. Notice the word confidence. We just need to pray according to His will. So how do we know His will, His will is first revealed in the Bible. The words of the Bible is God’s will.

Chuck Smith on Prayer

These are some quotes from Chuck Smith’s book Living Water on the subject of prayer. This is from a section on the Spirit helping us pray from Romans 8:26-27

The weakness that Paul is talking about here is our weakness in knowing the will of God. We don’t always know how we should pray. As we size up a situation, we may judge it one way and start praying that way, but it may be just the opposite of what God wants to do.

I have discovered through the years that many of my prayers were completely out of the will of God. There were things I was almost insisting that God do, but in His love and goodness to me, He didn’t do them. Today I am as thankful for the prayers that God did not answer as I am for the prayers that God did answer.

Martin Luther on Prayer

During the reformation, where people came back to the Bible, Martin Luther comments on the subject of prayer. Prayer had to be big in that day because of all the strong religion pulling people away from the Bible. I am sure Luther prayed much.

But the principle went still further; for it vindicated for the laity the possession of spiritual faculties and powers the same in kind as those of the clergy. All Christian men are admitted to the privilege of priesthood, and are “worthy to appear before God to pray for others, and to teach one another mutually the things which are of God. — from First Principles of the Reformation (95 Theses)

So too His priesthood does not consist in the outward display of vestments and gestures, as did the human priesthood of Aaron and our ecclesiastical priesthood at this day, but in spiritual things, wherein, in His invisible office, He intercedes for us with God in heaven, and there offers Himself, and performs all the duties of a priest; as Paul describes Him to the Hebrews under the figure of Melchizedek. Nor does He only pray and intercede for us; He also teaches us inwardly in the spirit with the living teachings of His Spirit. Now these are the two special offices of a priest, as is figured to us in the case of fleshly priests, by visible prayers and sermons.
— from: First Principles of the Reformation (95 Theses)