How Often Should We Pray?

What Charles Spurgeon wrote about prayer is quite "practical" in Lectures To My Students:

A very important part of our lives consists in praying in the Holy Spirit. Abundant prayer must go with earnest preaching (and Bible study). We cannot always be on our knees of the body, but the soul should never leave the posture of devotion. The habit of prayer is good, but the spirit of prayer is better. Regular retirement is to be maintained, but continued communion with God is to be our aim. As a rule, we ought never to be many minutes without actually lifting up our hearts in prayer. Some of us could honestly say that we are seldom a quarter of an hour without speaking to God, and that not as a duty but as an instinct, a habit of the new nature for which we claim no more credit than a babe does for crying after its mother. How could we not do otherwise?

Wow! Spurgeon himself said that he was seldom more than 15 min without speaking to God. Praying to follow his example:

• Do we pray every 15 min while watching a 2 hour movie, or a 30 min sitcom?
• Do we pray every 15 min when we are intensely studying, doing our homework, or working during our 8 hour work day?
• Do we pray every 15 min when chatting on social network sites?
• Do we pray every 15 min (or more frequently) when we are furiously angry with someone?
• Do we pray every 15 min when dating our spouses?

I am sure you can come up with a lot of other interesting scenarios for praying at least every 15 min.

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