Your Prayers Don’t Have to End

[Your Prayers Don’t Have to End]( Current Teaching Series [40 Days of Prayer]( [Listen to Today's Broadcast]( [Your Prayers Don’t Have to End]( By Rick Warren — 08/15/2021 [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Email]( “Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion." Ephesians 6:18 (NLT) Did you know that you don’t have to end your prayers with “In Jesus’ name. Amen”? In fact, you don’t have to stop praying at all. Prayer is a running conversation with God. It never has to end! You just talk to him like you would a friend or a loving Father. If something comes up, you talk to God about it. Then, maybe a minute or two goes by, and you talk to him about something else. If you did not breathe, you would die. Prayer is spiritual breathing. You don’t think about breathing—you just do it. In the same way, prayer needs to become so natural that you don’t even think about it. Right now, you may have to think to pray. But you can develop a habit of praying, where you don’t even have to think about doing it or what you’re going to say. You’re good at talking to yourself. You talk to yourself about everything you experience—all the time! Start talking to God instead. To pray conversationally, you just talk to God about whatever you’re interested in at that particular moment. “Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion” (Ephesians 6:18 NLT). That means you can talk to God anywhere, anytime, about anything, as the Spirit leads. When you get an impression, pray about it! Maybe you’re thinking that you often don’t feel like praying, because you don’t know what to say. But if you don’t feel like praying, it means you’re not praying what you feel. When you don’t feel like praying, it means you’re praying about the wrong thing. God isn’t interested in what you’re not interested in. God already knows everything in your life. He just wants you to talk to him, like a father or a mother longs to have their children talk to them. Keep a conversation with God going throughout your day. Talk to him about what you’re feeling, and you’ll feel like praying a lot more. [PLAY today’s audio teaching from Pastor Rick >>]( Talk It Over - What do you most often talk to God about? Do you think that’s what he wants most to hear from you? - New spiritual habits don’t just happen by chance. How can you practice keeping an open, running conversation with God throughout your day? - What does it mean to “pray in the Spirit”? The post [Your Prayers Don’t Have to End]( appeared first on [Pastor Rick's Daily Hope](. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Email]( [Get the 40 Days of Prayer Study Kit when you give a gift to support Daily Hope]( At one point or another everyone faces disappointments, obstacles, and circumstances that seem impossible to overcome. Whether it’s a struggling marriage, health crisis, financial loss, wounds from our past, or something else altogether, life’s struggles leave us desperate for a breakthrough. God sees you, hears your cries, and is ready to respond. But breakthroughs don’t happen spontaneously, they happen when you seek them. And the way you seek them is through prayer. In his life-changing, 6-session DVD and workbook study, 40 Days of Prayer, Pastor Rick helps you cultivate a powerful prayer life! You’ll learn how to pray for a breakthrough—and how to pray with more confidence and greater faith than ever before. [LEARN MORE]( [Complete Audio Series (Purchase)]( Includes 7 full-length messages from Pastor Rick's series 40 Days of Prayer. [LEARN MORE]( [Series Summary]( Message 1: Do You Really Want to Grow Up? Message 2: A Beginner's Guide to Prayer Message 3: Who Do You Think You Are Talking To? 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