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All-night prayer will allow you to experience an intimate moment with God, and it is a key to a spiritual breakthrough. There is an intimate outpouring God is ready to release to those who are willing to seek Him when many would rather sleep.
Prayer gives you a chance to focus on what matters most. Nightly prayers also help you reflect on all the ways that God has been present with you. No matter what you faced today, talking to God through a night prayer will renew your faith and help you experience a night of better sleep.
He states, “The night prayer brightens the faces, beautifies the aroma [of one's self], and attracts sustenance.”3 Not only will this prayer benefit us on the Day of Judgment, but in this world it will give our faces the glow of the righteous. Through it, God will also bless us by increasing our sustenance.
Let no evil enter my mind tonight, and guard me against fearful or anxious thoughts. You are my Shepherd every hour of the day, and in the watches of night. In Jesus' name, amen.
Why pray at midnight? Midnight (between 12:00am – 3:00am) is known to be the most spiritually active period of the day. You will notice that dreams, revelations, attacks, visitations from the spirit world (both by angels and demonic powers) often come at this time, especially when you are sleeping.
Formally, Night Prayer is called “Compline.” This comes from the Latin verb complete, meaning to “fill up.” Prayed at the end of the day, Night Prayer is part of the Liturgy of the Hours. Based on its formal etymology, Compline allows you to “fill your vessel” with prayer before you go to sleep.
Dear God, as I lay me down to sleep, relax the tension of my body; calm the restlessness of my mind; still the thoughts which worry and perplex me.
The 3 O'Clock prayer is a simple, yet powerful, prayer that has been passed down through the centuries. The prayer consists of the following: “My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You.”
The Talmud gives two reasons why there are three basic prayers each day: Each service was instituted parallel to a sacrificial act in the Temple in Jerusalem: the morning Tamid offering, the afternoon Tamid offering, and the overnight burning of this last offering.
The typical schedule for the Divine Hours follows a three-hour pattern, with prayers at 6:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m., noon, 3:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m. In addition, there are evening prayers and morning prayers outside of these times.
“Merciful Father, as we go to sleep, help us to rest. Protect us from the enemy and all those that would do us harm. In this time be near. Lord, we ask that we feel Your supernatural presence and know that You are with us.
Dear God, as I lay me down to sleep, relax the tension of my body; calm the restlessness of my mind; still the thoughts which worry and perplex me. Help me to rest myself and all my problems in your strong and loving arms.
In the Western Christian tradition, the hour between 3:00 am and 4:00 am was considered a period of peak supernatural activity—this time is also referred to as the "Devil's hour" due to it being a mocking inversion of the time in which Jesus supposedly died, which was at 3:00 pm.
“My Dear Uncle, ask Allah for Afiyah for Wallahi, you cannot be given anything better than Afiyah.” It is a simple Dua, Sincerely mean what you say while praying. “O Allah, I ask You to be saved from any Distress, Grief, Hardship, Harm, and don't test me, etc.”
“Prayer is more powerful than any obstacles you face in life!
They are often said as a closing prayer for church service as a benediction. Lord God, thank you for your abundant love and care for us. Thank you for forgiving our sins, even for the sins we do not realize we commit. Lord, please fill us with your wisdom and your compassion for others.
We state that the ruling of closing one's eyes in prayer is originally makruh for it contradicts with the commandment of looking at the place of prostration. Although if one finds that if he keeps his eyes closed then it helps him to focus and attain khusyuk in prayer, then it is permissible and sometimes prioritized.
The scriptures clarify that vain repetition is the problem (see Matthew 6:7). Sometimes you will need to repeat important things in your prayers. But if you repeat words without thinking, you're not really communicating with Heavenly Father.
That is, whether His chosen ones have the faith to believe Him that their prayers are effectual and that they ought to indeed persevere by praying day and night. In this powerful passage, Jesus plainly states His desire that Christians should persevere in prayer by praying every day and every night.
Tahajjud, also known as the "night prayer", is a voluntary prayer performed by followers of Islam.
Just as it makes space for silence, getting up early can provide much needed time for prayer, Scripture reading, meditating on the truths of the faith, or just resting in God's presence.