Obviously she was wrong; we started the day before yesterday. I encourage you to make this 5 to 6 hour session the minimum. Go longer if possible. Personally, I find that once I get started, I can never stop for two hours.
EM Bounds said concerning prayer that: “Prayer felt as immediate force is the product of long hours spent with God. Our short and effective prayers are so because of the long prayers that preceded them…God is not known by short visits. God does not bestow His gifts upon the casual or the hasty. Spending much time with God is the secret of knowledge and influence with God. He yields to the persistence of the faith that knows Him. He gives His most precious gifts to those who demonstrate their desire and appreciation of these gifts by their constancy and readiness in prayer. Christ, who in this, as elsewhere, is our example, spent whole nights in prayer. He was accustomed to long prayers. He had his usual place of prayer…We would not have anyone think that the value of prayer is measured by the clock, no, our purpose is to demonstrate the necessity of spending much time alone with God; and if this characteristic has not been produced in us by our faith, then our faith is of a weak and superficial nature.”
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