Pray While Counting Swimming Laps - wikiHow

I had a really nice swim this morning. A man in the next swimming lane told me that I had good technique. It made me happy. He said that his wife says he doesn't keep his feet high enough when swimming. On the subject of techniques, I was using a technique to both count laps and pray for someone while I was swimming. I wrote this WikiHow article about a year ago:

How to Pray While Counting Swimming Laps

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Have you discovered how important and immensely valuable prayer is? Is fitness also one of your priorities? For people who like swimming, here is a great way for quality prayer and exercise to take place at the same time. With each lap you swim you can be praying about different aspects of an important prayer need.

Steps

1. Decide on an important prayer need to focus on. It could be something personal such as a weakness you want God to help you turn into a strength. Maybe there is an urgency to pray for someone in a crisis or prayer is needed to help prevent or resolve a crisis somewhere in the world.
   
2. Begin swimming your first lap. Focus on your prayer topic and pray fervently for something (or multiple things) relating to it which begin with the letter "A". Swim your second lap while praying about anything pertinent to your prayer topic beginning with the letter "B" and so on.
   
3. Continue prayer swimming your way through the alphabet, until you've swam as many laps as you want to.
   
4. Count through the alphabet up to the letter you were on during the last lap of your swim. This is how many laps you've swum.
   
5. Begin the alphabet again if you want to prayer swim more. To count how many additional laps you've swum after you've already swam through the twenty-six letters of the alphabet, start counting the next alphabet set with the number twenty-seven.
   

Tips

• Pray with thankfulness and weave genuine praise to God into your prayer.
  
• Don't stop praying just because you stopped swimming.
  
• This is just one way of praying, you may like another method of praying better.
  

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