What is the longest you've prayed for non-stop?

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That is like on my bucket list. Sorry that may come across as flippant but, it is something I need to do for my own salvation for starters.
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I don’t know about that-it sure wasn’t something I ever expected to do but it certainly seemed right and somehow almost familiar at the time. I couldn’t not do it. That was many years ago but I did something very similar again recently, once more for someone I loved who was in deep trouble. Our spirits can sense and be moved to act on things that our heads barely perceive, or even deny.
 
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After 11 Days I required medical attention. However, I believe I could’ve gone 14 Days with enough training.
 
I personally feel that your prayer life should be something to avoid bragging or ‘mea culpa(ing)’ openly, like the amount of money you may or may not donate to charitable causes, it is for you and God, and the other folks in Heaven, to ponder over. I suspect that most of us have ‘good days’ and days when we struggle - these ‘good days’ and days of struggle are also personal to your own circumstances, and no one else’s. Pray for the energy, enthusiasm, and focus to pray well, and remember that quality is preferred in Heaven to quantity - unless of course you can make it both. Oh, and don’t forget that requests to God, Our Blessed Mother, and the Angels and Saints, should always be balanced with/by our thanks.
 
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Rob - There is also time and place for public/community prayer - “when two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them”.
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In the sense I think you mean, probably a few minutes. At the evening outdoor Rosary, 20 minutes. While biking along the river trail, maybe an hour or more.
 
There is something romantic about praying all night. its on my bucket list anyway.
 
I don’t think God is keeping a scorecard before He answers prayers.

“Well, that’s a shame. Five more minutes of prayer and he would have gotten what he was asking for…”

We don’t earn God’s grace. He gives it to us, freely and according to His will.

If you’re praying and praying and seemingly not receiving an answer, perhaps you need to discern what God is telling you. Maybe you’ve received an answer, but it just wasn’t the one you wanted. I heard it said once that God answers every prayer one of three ways: (1) Yes; (2) Yes, but not yet; or, (3) I have something better in mind for you.
 
I’m aiming for Quantity with a Capital Q, despite being appointed Quality Control Consultant on CAF
 
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We don’t earn God’s grace. He gives it to us, freely and according to His will.
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Agree with everyone who said God is not keeping score. Prayer is beneficial for us and our spiritual journey, so it is good to do, but God’s grace is not doled out according to the volume of our prayers.
 
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Unsure of longest duration. I don’t really keep track tbh I just pray for what feels like an apt amount of time to offer the prayers I do daily and/or mediation.
 
I’m not sure that I know… other than the 1hr at adoration which ends with mass I don’t keep track of the time as such. I am blessed though that I do have a bit of time. I’d say it regularly exceeds an hour but seldom 2, though I might go for round two again in the same day.
I think God sends grace on a regular basis and you can expect and do get grace in a single aspiration, which takes a couple of seconds to say. I do think He sends grace without a word of prayer too, just the lurch of your heart. I dont think we have to work for His grace, isnt that what grace is? a free gift from God which we do not deserve or earn.

I also don’t believe how long we pray has everything to do with whether they are answered, well only in that prayer changes us and our prayer might change. I saw an article which summarised Thomas Acquinas’s thoughts on prayers being answered and how they were answered and it was more about aligning our prayers to the Divine will of God and accepting that outcome. God will not give us what we want if it isnt truly in our best interests of our soul. We must accept this and that we do not know what He knows so if we dont get what we want then He will give us something else which is in our souls best interests. In my little child ways I always think of it as, God gives us what we need, which occasionally aligns with what we want. So we can ask for what we want but should not expect to get it as it stands for we do not know the whole picture.
 
goodcatholic - I personally don’t keep a score, except that there are some particular prayers I wish to pray daily - as for time prayed each day, well amount and quality varies, I suspect like everyone else, ‘we’ have good days and not so good days. One of my personal issues is ‘distraction’.
 
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