The ofHour Prayer Pray without ceasing and do not cease the prayer of seasons.
F
anny Cosby left us an undying evergreen hymn which always resonates an awakening clause to the soul - “O the pure delight of a single hour that before thy throne I spend, when I kneel in prayer… I commune as friend with friend’’
What then happened to the season of prayers observed in the early days after Pentecost?
The ever-potent admonition of 1 Thessalonians 5:17 - “Pray without ceasing” means we are to pray nonstop; and by extension means to pray in season and out of season.
We can deductively but delicately conclude that the 3pm prayer watch is for dealing with lameness. Perhaps if we utilized this hour of prayer, we could soon bid goodbye to all the
We are told the Apostles cultivated a routine called ‘the hour of prayer’. The exact timing of these hours of prayer is not always mentioned but the resultant effects of this habit is This hymn describes the prayer abundantly evident in scriptures. routine cultivated by the early church which was a way of making One example is listed in Acts 3 which prayers ‘’the key of the day and the paints the vivid picture of a certain lock of the night’’ (George Herbert). man who was at a gate called Outstandingly, many orthodox Beautiful at ‘The hour of prayer’ which churches around the world have in this case was 3pm. It was at this sustained this routine of set hours of time that “his ankle bones received prayer but not a lot of this practice strength” and before the end of the can be found in more recent church hour he could be seen “walking, and leaping, and praising God.” plants and denominations.
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