The Joy Of Early Morning Prayer
Starting Your Day Off Right With Early Morning Prayer
What better way to start the day off right than with early morning prayer.
Rise and shine!
It’s a new day to praise the Lord. 🙂
How can a person really enjoy a beautiful sunrise or a sunset, a beautiful spring day or even a beautiful winter day, if he can’t thank the One who creates these things? –Â Warren Wiersbe, Moody Bible Church.2
Early Morning Prayer – Does Lengthy Equal Better?
Many times, I wake up as early as 4:30 in the morning.
That would have sounded awful to younger me, but I look forward to the early morning hours now.
I relish the peace and the quiet at the start of each new day.
And, as a bonus, in a few hours I get to watch that magnificent sun rise!
For me, it’s the perfect time for praying and seeking God’s wisdom.
Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth! – Psalm 46:10, (ESV).3
Do you know who else engaged in early morning prayer?
Jesus!
Mark 1:35 tells us that, “in the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and prayed there for a time.”4
How long do our early morning prayers have to be?
That’s between you and God.
Not only does He hear our longer prayers, He also hears our short praises, even a simple, “Thank You Jesus.”
When I first became a Christian, I got a little caught up in that.
I would hear a friend pray a lengthy prayer and it would sound so eloquent.
It didn’t take long for me to realize that it’s not the length of our prayers that matter.
Long or short, eloquent or simple, He hears us!
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1 Scripture quotation is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.
2 Warren Wiersbe quotation from the Psalm 113 Commentary, [2021] Courtesy of Precept Austin. Subheading, “The Responsibility of Praise” Web. Accessed 2 October, 2023.
3 Scripture quotation is from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, copyright © 2016 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
4 Scripture quotation is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.
