Sept.11.03: Light For The Day - "Prayer Time" -- Psalms 42:8 (NIVUS) "By day the LORD directs His love,  at night His song is with me - a prayer to the God of my life." -- James 5:16b "... The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective" ----------------- When a burden comes upon your soul, or the Spirit leads you out along any line in prayer, take time, plenty of time to get alone with God in prayer.  Stay there. Don't be in a hurry. Don't get nervous.  Don't look at your watch.  Never stop until you get the mind of God.  It is dangerous to your own soul; it is destructive to  God's cause committed to you. It will cause you to lose  the blessed spirit of prayer, when He leads you out,  and you fail to pray clear through. God would not burden your heart, God would not make you hungry, lead you out, lead you to wrestle, to agonize, to fast and pray, unless He meant to answer.  It's proof of the fact when the burden continues, and the Spirit continues to lead you out, that there's an answer, and God wants you to pray clear through. -- W.J.Harney ------------- If you're in a hurry to pray, better postpone your prayer time. You can't get the mind of God when you're constantly looking at your watch or mentally organizing your day as you pray. That's why the most productive times of prayer are  Scheduled Times of Prayer, when you set aside a specific time in which to do nothing but meet with God.  Then He can give you a burden to  "Pray Clear Through." Take your time in prayer today.  Get your answer from God. -- N.Harrison ---------------- Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else - time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun, but no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential. -- Oswald J. Smith ------------------ -- Psalms 66:16-20 (NLT) "16 Come and listen, all you who fear God,  and I will tell you what He did for me. 17 For I cried out to Him for help, praising Him as I spoke. 18 If I had not confessed the sin in my heart,  my Lord would not have listened. 19 But God did listen! He paid attention to my prayer. 20 Praise God, who did not ignore my prayer and  did not withdraw His unfailing love from me." -- Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NIVUS) "11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, " plans to prosper you and not to harm you,  plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find Me when  you seek Me with all your heart. -- Jeremiah 33:3  ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and  unsearchable things you do not know.’