How often do you pray?

To answer the question directly:
I pray lots of times in the day

but if I was asked how often do I lock myself away and do some deep holy praying I would say very rarely.

I have never been one to over do the reverent side of prayer, by that I mean I don’t slip in the word Jesus every fifth word. I tend to talk like I am now, basically waffling. I tell God what’s going on with my day, ask about stuff etc. nothing really Holy but then I think if God wants a relationship he’ll have to put up with me as I am. So for me at the mo I just continually talk to him all day.

Generally I like praying/talking to God on the loo, whilst driving, in bed, when I have a cigerette, instead of doing the things I should be doing etc.

The length of prayer usually lasts as long as my attention span, I’m constantly amazed at how my mind wonders but then when was the last time you had a conversation where you didn’t go off the topic?

Not many responses to this but I thought I’d take the plunge (come on everyone else!)

My aim would be to spend proper time once a day praying (and reading the Bible). Now that I work at home (in a fairly relaxed way) on a normal day I usually manage to do this. At weekends, or on busy days, or when I’m away from home, it tends to go out of the window. I’m happy to have more or less got into this routine – when I had a job which started at 9 in the morning I never really managed to find a convenient time.

Since we seem to be sharing other aspects than just frequency – I sometimes worry that I am too mechanistic in my prayers for other people and situations – I have various lists of things to pray for, and work my way through them (eg friends, info from organisations, situations I’m concerned about). But I figure that at least that way I don’t forget people/things that I really did want to pray about. My other concern about this way of doing things is that then “shopping lists” take over from really talking to God – I try to make sure I spend time thanking him for things, praising him for the great things about him, saying sorry, and just talking to him about what is going on in my life, etc. – but some days I’m better at this than others.

My ideal would be to spend a specific good concentrated time in full awareness of God, praying to him, every single day – but definitely not forgetting about him the rest of the time either. I think quick comments are also vital – whether it’s “thank you” or “help” or just enjoying something beautiful in thankfulness to God that he made it. I think both aspects are important – the sitting down and concentrating, and involving God in the fabric of our day-to-day lives.

(are my posts too long? – sorry I’m so wordy!)

To answer the question directly:
I pray lots of times in the day

but if I was asked how often do I lock myself away and do some deep holy praying I would say very rarely.

I have never been one to over do the reverent side of prayer, by that I mean I don’t slip in the word Jesus every fifth word. I tend to talk like I am now, basically waffling. I tell God what’s going on with my day, ask about stuff etc. nothing really Holy but then I think if God wants a relationship he’ll have to put up with me as I am. So for me at the mo I just continually talk to him all day.

Generally I like praying/talking to God on the loo, whilst driving, in bed, when I have a cigerette, instead of doing the things I should be doing etc.

The length of prayer usually lasts as long as my attention span, I’m constantly amazed at how my mind wonders but then when was the last time you had a conversation where you didn’t go off the topic?

Well i must be honest is saying that i am good enough at praying when people are in a crisis I can see prayer working in others lives. i have trouble praying to God about my own needs. I still feel close to God but I struggle praying. I might well pray for myself once a week if that. I believe in prayer, and know that it works, there is enough evidence in my life. I pray when i am on christian holidays, because I feel like its ok there.
I come from a non christian family, so other than Sundays I have no one to pray with. I prefer to pray with people. I do feel silly some times sitting in my room praying out loud on my own in my room. I never feel that silent prayer gets to where it should. Well with time, i am sure i will come to terms with accepting that i ahve a right to pray.

A wise person told me that once – about God liking it when we try even if we don’t manage what we meant to do. Is very encouraging that He sees our intentions and not just the things we physically manage to do.

Yeah I find this really hard. There’s a page on the wiki about how to get close to God that touches on this I think. Get writing folks!