Our prayer time often wanders, especially when individuals share prayer requests. How can we make our prayer time meaningful as well as focused?

One way to make prayer a stress-free, worshipful time is to spend less time on prayer requests and more time on prayer.

One simple way to do this is to have each person share prayer requests as you pray. It shortens the time and gives more people a chance to pray for the request. Another way to make your prayer time more meaningful is to have one person briefly share a request, and then assign somebody to pray immediately for that person.

You can also focus your prayer time by having individuals write their requests on a card. Place them in the center of the table and have everyone grab one of the requests and pray for it. Believe God has appointed who is going to get prayed for and by whom.

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