Biblical is not the answer Being a true Christian and being a man or woman of God is not about being biblical, but it is about knowing Jesus Christ and actually obeying Him! Are you obeying Jesus? Are you living holy? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmRKaCH2QRU

Your Walk Hinges On Your Prayer Life Your spiritual walk is hinged upon how fluent you are with Jesus Christ in prayer. You cannot hear from the Holy Spirit and get His messages and follow Him in purity if you are not having a fluid prayer life. Many Christians pray but they do not hear back from God. They treat prayer as if it is a ritual. They think that you just pray in church, or just when you're around the dinner table or something like that. But if you're going to follow Jesus and be His child you have to have a fluid prayer life, where you hear from Him, you pray and communicate with Him and then you are led by whatever the Holy Spirit calls you to do. Some Christians over spiritualize prayer; They think that you should only pray in absolute silence with no distractions from children. Because they will only pray in absolute silence they rarely find times to pray. Others think you can only pray in the front of a church they think that it is a show. If we treat prayer like a ritual or a ceremony we won't have a real connection with God. There is no exact science to prayer, it is not a formula it is not a ritual, it is not a ceremony. I want to read to you what Jesus did say know about prayer in Matthew chapter 6, He said, “And when you pray you should not be like the hypocrites for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets that they may be seen by men. Assuredly I say to you they have their reward. But you when you pray go into your room and when you have shut your door pray to your Father who is in the secret place. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray do not use vain repetitions as heathen do for they think they will be heard for their many words. Therefore, do not be like them for your Father knows the things that you have need of before you ask.” We all know the type of Christians that pray vain repetitions. The Catholics do this. They think they will be heard by saying their “Hail Mary’s” and the Lord's Prayer over and over and over again. These sorts of prayers are vain repetitions that do not glorify God. It is also not pleasing to Jesus just to try to find a good church where we can go down to the altar and pray. There is nothing holy about a church. There is nothing holy about a specific sanctuary. You don't have to go into a church to be pleasing to God and to get your prayers heard, NOR do you need to go find a religious man who can hear your prayer requests and then pray on your behalf. You need to work out your own relationship with Jesus and speak to Him the things that are on your own heart. I don't know how many emails I get from people that say “please pray for me, if you pray for me then my prayer requests will be heard.” It is good to pray for one another but each of us have to do our own work and pray and work out our relationship with Jesus. If you don't do that, then you won't be hearing from the Holy Spirit. I could pray for you or some Pastor could pray for you or anyone for hours and days and no work would be done in your own prayer life because you haven't done the work yourself. I encourage you to go to Jesus have a real prayer life, and do whatever it takes to push through in prayer. You don't have to be in absolute silence or praying on your knees in the dark. You just have to do whatever is efficient for you, whatever keeps you awake. It is good to pray in private and it is good to pray in a place that is quiet, on your knees. But by all means pray however works for you. You know sometimes being a quiet please all alone, it makes me fall asleep. Sometimes the best place for me is on a walk. If we're walking we can pray on a walk or if we're jogging we can pray on a jog. We can pray with our hands up, whatever keeps us awake and keeps us connected to Jesus. But by all means don't treat prayer as a ritual or as a ceremony or as just words that you repeat over and over again. These are just vain repetitions that people do that are becoming lukewarm and that are just connected to dead religion. Really follow Jesus, be hearing from Him when you pray, and do whatever works for you. Again, it's not a formula to follow it's a relationship with Jesus! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FolFvve8IBM