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You need spiritual energy to carry out spiritual activities .
Why you find your self weak,and unable to pray when you try to even if it is immediately after eating food that you attempted to do so is because you lack the spiritual energy to do so .

Prayer is a spiritual exercise ,and to carry out spiritual exercise you need spiritual energy not only physical energy .

Fasting (could ) also be a spiritual exercise and a strange one too .
It is a type you do by abstaining from what gives you physical energy - food.
But the food of the spirit is the word of God ,and the water of the spirit is praise ,worship ,and prayer.

the way to be strengthened in your spirit to pray is actually to meditate on the word of God ,to sing praise ,and worship to god ,and then also to enage prayer.
(especially praying in tongues ) while you are still in that state of weakness .

engaging prayer (by praying in tongues ) while you are yet in that state of weakness is one of the ways to tap into the strength to pray as you ought to .
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Hope someone would practice this today .

Meditating on God's word before praying strengthens you spirit with energy .

If you can set alarm to remind about your prayer time then it would help you maintain a consistent prayer lifestyle .

It is a good thing to schedule time for prayer
If you really want to get serious with your prayer life .

If you want to succeed in that endeavor then begin by setting for your self a time you can easily beat

Like( maybe ) 30 minute .
Then after you have beaten 30 minutes and are consistent in it then proceed to 40 then 50 minutes then gradually make it 1 hour ,then from one hour you can migrate to 2 hours or even 3 hours or more .

Buy start very little if you want to master the time .

Your starting little is not to accommodate laziness but to get you to the point where you would master the time ,and enjoy the prayer exercise but if you start with struggling you may not succeed .
So start little and then add 10 minutes gradually till you reach the point where you could pray for long hours .

Praying in tongues for long hours can activate
Or sharpen spiritual gifts

How long does your church engage in prayer?

30 minutes ?
20 minutes ?

It is important that the congregation of a Church should engage long hours of prayer if they really want to see the hand of God among them .

Many churches today pray less as if they didn't pray at all.