A National Day For Prayer

When you pray&#8230;said Jesus, designating that we should - we must. <br/><br/>So when do you pray? Do you have a specific time set, or is it sometime? If that sometime is haphazard and mostly when it&#8217;s convenient, or just when there is a crisis in our day and we are desperate, or when there is a need - then likely our prayer time is also haphazard. <br/><br/>Our daily schedules are full, our calendars are filled and we know when we work, sleep, exercise, go to lunch, meet a friend and so on. Likely we do not have a set time for when we pray. <br/><br/>If we know when we do these things, we should also know when we pray!<br/><br/>Perhaps it&#8217;s best first thing in the morning, or perhaps at noon, or in the evening - maybe all three. But set a time or that time will be filled with some distraction or other and the day will be gone before you have sought your Father in Heaven. <br/><br/>Mark it in your calendar, set a time on your watch, whatever - and stick to it. Jesus asked can you not watch one hour? I would ask, do you have 5 minutes, at least? You do, if you stop doing something else for 5 minutes (Facebook will still be there).<br/><br/>Do this for 7 days, then 10, now 21. Pretty soon it starts to become a daily habit and later you will pray because you want to, you need to, you enjoy to be constant in prayer.<br/><br/>Today May 6th 2021 is the National Day Of Prayer<br/><br/>This day, set aside by law in 1952, is to be dedicated to prayer on behalf of our nation. Its&#8217; history actually dates back to President John Adams in 1798 whose proclamation was for a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer. You can <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-8-recommending-national-day-humiliation-fasting-and-prayer">read it here</a>. President Abraham Lincoln also<a href="http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/fast.htm"> called for a day</a> of Prayer and Fasting in 1863.<br/><br/>They designated a whole day to pray and fast! How about setting a time of prayer