This is Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope. If you're new, we're so glad you found us. And if you're a daily, daily hoper, welcome back. Today we're going to continue with our series called 40 Days of Prayer. Such a great series, because Rick is going to help you cultivate a powerful prayer life so you can experience

breakthroughs. Breakthroughs in your relationships, breakthroughs and finances, health, and really

every area of your life. So don't miss a day of this life-changing series. And now let's join Pastor Rick

for the final part of a message called How to Pray Throughout Your Day.

Now you come, you should go back to work, mid-afternoon.

That's when you want to take a nap.

And you're just, you're starting to get a little sluggish there.

You're not real bright.

But by mid-afternoon, I don't know about you.

You know, I'm in the people business. And so I'm dealing with people all the time. And I don't

know if you notice this. Some of them are kind of goofy. Some of them are frustrating.

Some people don't look at them. Some people are disappointing. Some people hurt you intentionally and some unintentionally. And I don't know about you. By the time I get to mid-afternoon, I've got a stack of bad attitudes because of the people that I've had to listen to or deal with.

And so in the afternoon, I got some attitudes and some actions,

and I've got some sins that have piled up by mid-afternoon.

And so the fifth thing I do, write this down,

I ask for forgiveness in the afternoon.

I ask for forgiveness in the afternoon. And ask for forgiveness in the afternoon.

And when I take a little prayer break in the afternoon,

and I don't even tell people that I'm doing this,

sometimes I just get up from a meet and go to the bathroom,

and while I'm going to the bathroom, I talk to God.

And in that point, in the afternoon, I just say, Lord, is there anything in my life I need to clean out? Is there any sin? Search me, oh God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. See if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. God, is there something here that I need to just admit to you? I need to confess.

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