Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty.
— Ephesians 6:18
This important verse lets us know that we can pray anywhere at any time about anything and that we should be watchful to do so. If we believe and practice this scripture, it can be life-changing and certainly prayer-changing.
It seems even when we do think about some prayer concern, we almost always follow that thought with another type of wrong thinking: I need to remember to pray about this during my prayer time. Why don't we stop and pray right then? Because we have a mental stronghold in this area. We think we must be in a certain place, in a certain frame of mind, and in a certain position before we can pray.
It's no wonder we don't get much praying done. If the only time we can pray is when we are sitting still and doing absolutely nothing else, most of us certainly won't be praying without ceasing.
We should all set aside a time to spend with God when we are doing nothing else, and we should discipline ourselves to keep our appointments with Him. Yes, we should have these set-apart times, but in addition to that we should be exercising our privileges of prayer all day long. Our prayers can be verbal or silent, long or short, public or private—the important thing is that we pray!
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