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.
  

Related wikiHows

• How to Count Swimming Laps Creatively
  
• How to Pray to Jesus
  
• How to Establish Personal Quiet Time with Christ
  
• How to Avoid Sabotaging Your Prayer Life
  
• How to Exercise to Become a Better Swimmer
  

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Pictorial Scriptural Intercession

I'd noticed that when I try to recite scripture I've memorized to someone, I'm so concentrating on remembering the scripture that I mostly look at the floor. I decided to look at a photo of someone while reciting memorized scripture.

A few weeks ago I told my sister about how I'd been reciting these scriptures, from Ephesians 4 (see scriptures below), to a graduation pic of her son, my nephew, who's now in college. My sister excitedly said "I claim it" in a quick prayer to God for her son. I've continued to recite these scriptures to the photograph of my nephew and I also pray these scriptures for him. I've been praying for him a lot more ever since his high school graduation. Recently I asked my sister about him, she said that he's so grown up now and that he's really nice. :) I've been happily pondering this in light of my praying with this scripture for my nephew!

Another example of scriptural praying, is praying as taught by Jesus in the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13 & Luke 11:2-4). There is much teaching in the Bible about prayer and related to prayer. Here is a link to an article on prayer in the International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia (online at blueletterbible.org), with many scripture links related to prayer:

http://www.blueletterbible.org/isbe/isbe.cfm?id=7059


I love how God answers prayer. My most recent prayer happened while wondering about a title for this blog post. God also impressed on me that we need to live like we are making a pictorial for Him, filled with snapshots of genuine faithfulness.

Ephesians 4:1-3, 7, 12, 14-15, 21-24, 30
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace… But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ… For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:… That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:… If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness… And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. (KJV)