24-7 prayer is God’s idea. The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 5:17, “Pray continually.” To pray continually means to “pray 24-7.” It is God’s command. Prayer is often compared to spiritual breathing, or the breathing of one’s spirit. We breathe 24-7. We breathe every 2 seconds for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. We breathe 24-7 because we need fresh air, oxygen, so that our bodies can produce energy. If we stop breathing even for a minute, we can die because our bodies cannot produce energy.

Just as our body needs to breathe 24-7, our spirit also needs to breathe 24-7. If someone’s spirit dies, he or she doesn’t feel the need to pray or doesn’t want to pray, because a dead spirit doesn’t need energy. But once one’s spirit is alive by the breath of the Holy Spirit, his spirit needs to breathe in order to keep his spirit alive just like his body. Just as we take fresh oxygen through breathing, we take the fresh spirit through prayer. As we are designed to breathe 24-7 in our body, we are also designed to pray 24-7 in our spirit.

Now, question is, “How can we pray 24-7?” We will talk about this at the next meeting…