Can you spend too much time in prayer?

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I believe God has called on me to pray specifically for somebody. This person is constantly on my mind so I pray continuously for them and offer up sacrifices for them daily. I don’t know their situation or what prayers are needed. Now the thoughts and prayers are not interfering with my responsibilities. So is it wrong to spend so much time thinking and praying for someone?

I hope this doesn’t sound like a silly question. I’d appreciate any comments. Thanks in advance.
 
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I believe God has called on me to pray specifically for somebody. This person is constantly on my mind so I pray continuously for them and offer up sacrifices for them daily. I don’t know their situation or what prayers are needed. Now the thoughts and prayers are not interfering with my responsibilities. So is it wrong to spend so much time thinking and praying for someone?

I hope this doesn’t sound like a silly question. I’d appreciate any comments. Thanks in advance.
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To work is to pray.So long as praying has not just become preferable to carrying out your other daily duties,pray as much as you like.Healthy types can visit the sick and the less fit types can
link to savior.org and pray in front of their computer,pretending they are in church.

www.savior.org
 
I agree with both of you. When my brain isn’t being used for every day tasks and even during every day tasks, I’m praying. I pray when I’m still as well as while I’m chopping some onions for dinner. Prayer! Prayer! Prayer!
 
Yes, it is a common spiritual tempation of those who have begun to advance on the path to union with God, to fall prey to these demons of prayer: confusing quantity with quality, and separating prayer from the totality of daily life.

Quality refers to prayer’s depth and genuine experience of God. How do we verify that the quality of peayer is improving? We experience it when prayer impregnates life and tends to be prolonged even after specific prayer times. This is growth in the spirit of prayer, the goal of Christian life. We obtain this spirit and life when rather than multiplying times of prayer, we imbue them with quality.

If prayer is not part of one’s entire Christian life, we tend to substitute preparation, techniques and outward prayer rituals for the total submission to God’s will in all aspects of life which is the prerequisite for prayer. We live as we pray.

from “Demons of Prayer”, Segundo Galilea, Temptation and Discernment, ICS Publications, Washington DC
 
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