How Just 5 Minutes Of Prayer Can Transform Your Life

Subin john
3 min readSep 27, 2023

Five minutes from 1440 minutes a day is a doable goal, even if you do the math. Five minutes of your time given to God is a worthy investment for your soul.

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How To pray?

I feel there are no rules in prayer; it can be a recited line, a passage read from a Holy book, or just a casual conversation with God. Just spend 5 minutes in the presence of the almighty and speak your heart out.

Prayer Can Calm Your Soul And Mind

When we pray, we can feel the connection with the Divine, and this connection calms our mind and soul. You would feel a sense of peace running through you. If you have never prayed, then also you can try.

Trying something that can give you joy and peace is worth trying. Don’t you agree?

Prayer lets you share your worries and emotions with a higher power. It is like opening yourself to an all-loving entity. When you share your burden with God, you would feel a load of your heart lightened.

When you have shed away your daily sorrows to God and shared your shortcomings and things that made you angry during the day, you will feel like there is someone who listens to you.

This realization of someone being there fills your heart with joy.

Prayer Can Do Wonders

As for me, prayer has always worked as a personal gene for me. I have asked so many things in life, and through prayers, everything has been answered in ways that I would have never imagined.

In the Holy Bible, there is a verse in Matthew 7:7:

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

These words have always been true in my life.

Now, it doesn’t work like you pray that you make me Elon Musk tomorrow, and poof, you are the owner of Twitter or X.

It works like you share your concerns in prayer to God, for example, you are having trouble with your boss, and you pray to God, that I am having trouble with my boss, Lord, please do something about it.

Now, God does wonders; you will see that the problems with your boss will slowly go away.

The answers to prayers would not be like you would expect but rather be in a way that you would gradually understand and be in complete awe of.

Even if you don’t believe it, you would agree that there is no harm in trying it.

Just try for trying’s sake and see for yourself.

Start Praying For Just 5 Minutes Today

If you are already praying, then you understand what I am conveying here, but for those who have never prayed in their life, I would request to try it once.

There is absolutely no harm in trying something for 5 min in a day.

If you don’t feel anything in a while, then you can, of course, return to your previous self.

But what if these 5 minutes of experimenting with prayer can change your life?

If once you taste the fruits of prayer, I would bet my life on it that there is nothing sweeter and more satisfying in your life.

You would be able to face any problems and storms in your life if you had the power of prayer with you.

I would like to end with a quote by Kahlil Gibran:

“Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and tumult of a thousand men.” Kahlil Gibran

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