If the work of prayer is to be successful, it must also be properly planned.

Lack of prayer planning will be enough to make the prayer life of many unproductive and ineffective. They have no definite times for prayer, only seasons of prayer as time and occasion permit. Everything is left to the whim of circumstance. And the things they pray for are determined in the same haphazard way, depending in the main upon two things, first, the amount of time they have for prayer and second, what they at the moment happen to remember to pray for.

We all know, of course, what the result is. The enemy of our souls sees to it that we 'get' so little time to pray that what we are able to accomplish in prayer is reduced to a  minimum for this reason alone. Furthermore, he also sees to it that we become distracted so as to forget the things for which we should especially pray.

That will never do; the labor of prayer requires a definite plan and purpose.