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Devotional for May 20, 2026

DO NOT FORGET THE HOURS OF PRAYER

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Luke 18:1

“Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart.”

Additional Verses

📖 Daniel 6:1-28; Matthew 6:5-15; Luke 21:34-38

The LORD Jesus Christ taught that man always ought to pray and not to lose heart. Prayer increases the grace of God upon your life. Prayer is communication with your Father in heaven. Without prayer you will be cut off from God. It is through prayer that you are able to ask, seek and knock so that you will be able to receive from God as well as to have the doors opened for your breakthroughs. The parable of the persistent widow in Luke 18:2-8 teaches you how you can cause changes to your situation, to your health, to your family and to your finances through praying persistently. Persistent prayer means that you must always maintain a disciplined prayer program. Daniel 6:10 says, “Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been signed, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened towards Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed giving thanks to his God as was his custom.” Daniel maintained a disciplined prayer life that is why the Lord God delivered him when he was thrown into the den of lions. This is what the LORD Jesus Christ taught us during His life here on earth. According to Luke 21:37 the Bible says, “And in the daytime He was teaching in the temple, but at night He went out and stayed on the mountain called Olivet.” Before His arrest and Crucifixion, the LORD Jesus Christ went out to pray with His disciples to the Mount of Olives. He taught His disciples that prayer secures you in time of temptation. Luke 21:40 says, “On reaching the place He said to them, ‘Pray that you will not fall into temptation.’” When He was nailed to the Cross, the LORD Jesus Christ taught us to pray for our enemies according to Luke 23:34, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Through prayer you are able to disarm the enemy in all his schemes against you. 2 Corinthians 13:14 says, “May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” The LORD Jesus Christ gave you the prayer of Grace which you should pray every hour of prayer. The hours of prayer are six o’clock and nine o’clock in the morning, twelve noon, three o’clock in the afternoon, six o’clock and nine o’clock in the evening, twelve midnight and three o’clock in the morning. As you pray this prayer, you are always secured by the blood of the LORD Jesus Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Apostles maintained the life of prayer they had been taught by the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit was poured upon the Disciples on Pentecost day in the morning as they had been promised by the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 2:15 says, “These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only nine in the morning!” Also Acts 3:1 says, “One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer – at three in the afternoon.” Each day you spend time in prayer, your strength to do God’s work is renewed. Isaiah 40:29-31 says, “He gives strength to the weary, and increases the power of the weak. Even the youths grow tired and weary, and the young men stumble and fall. But those who wait on the LORD will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not faint.” As a child of God if you maintain a disciplined prayer life, you are always prepared for the second coming of the LORD Jesus Christ just as the five wise virgins were ready when the bridegroom suddenly appeared when they least expected. Establish a strong relationship with God through praying during the hours of prayer and any other time the Holy Spirit directs you to pray, and I tell you, He will cause you to overcome any challenge that the devil may put in your way. Alleluia!

Prayer

Thank You Father for teaching me on the importance of prayer. I pray that You give me a Spiritual Alarm so that I never miss the hours of prayers. Thank You Father, in Jesus Christ’s name I pray, Amen.