Welcome to Race to Deliver podcast with Vladimir Subject to episode 26. And today we're going to talk

about starting morning prayers or five reasons to having a morning prayer. Now I understand there's a lot

of people that are very different. Some people are night owls. Some people are morning people.

And I'm more of a morning person.

If you ever listen to my messages, you probably have kind of heard my mention of that. My pastor

is really the one that inspired prayers in the morning in my personal life. When I was a teenager,

I started that very early, an hour before going to school,

before going to high school. And that continued all through my high school years. I made it even

promise to God if he gives me a car. I'll start going to morning prayers, and then I got the car. And

of course, I didn't go to morning prayer until I got pulled over. And so then I repented and

start going to morning prayers. and sometime later in my life

the prayer in the morning really took the back seat and I kind of did not make it a huge priority

and as a result of that I struggled spiritually the ministry struggled I really believe there's a

connection to that a friend one friend of mine stayed in my house one time and he gave me this book. It's not a Christian book. I think it's a self-help book called Morning Miracle, or Miracle Morning, something like that, deals pretty much with how a lot of successful people wake up very early in the morning. And so as I was reading that book, honestly, I got provoked to jealousy with the fact that most of

people who are leading large companies and who are making great things happen in the world are

extremely early people. They wake up early. And they're not sleep deprived, but they're just very,

you know, conscious about being as productive and as creative in the early times of the morning. And that sparked a desire

would tend me, honestly, to start going back to morning prayer step by step. Some of you heard the

story. We had a church that was renting our facility and this church would come at five

o'clock in the morning to have their morning prayer. Now, they were renting our facility. They

didn't own the facility.

We didn't have morning prayers at that time. And I remember one time I couldn't sleep at,

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