The 10-100 Prayer Challenge--UPDATE!

How's your 10-100 Prayer Challenge going?  More than 50 of you committed to praying 10 hours (about 20 minutes per day) during the month of March, and I committed to 100 hours of pray during these 31 days.  At this moment I'm at 86 hours and 20 minutes for the month--about 50 minutes behind the schedule I set for myself.  That puts me well within reach of the 100 hours by the end of this Tuesday.  God has been doing some amazing things through the added hours of prayer in my life.  One of the things I've noticed the most is that when I'm not praying and not doing "anything" I find myself "singing" praise songs on the inside.  It reminds me of the Apostle Paul's challenge to the Ephesian Christians in Ephesians 5:18-20 "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.  Speak to one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.  Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ (NIV)   I've also noticed that almost nothing bothers me.  I was in a little bit of a hurry as I was driving somewhere this morning, and a slow driver pulled out in front of me.  In an instant I heard myself saying, "Thank you, Father.  Maybe if I had kept going at the rate I was I'd have been in an accident."  I smiled as I said it.  Don't get me wrong, God hasn't perfected me, but a whole lot of things that would ordinarily bother me haven't bothered me at all, and I find myself saying, "Thank You!" to God so much more than usual.  I do have to say that during this month, I have scarcely made any blog entries.  The time invested in prayer, hasn't cut into to many areas of my life, mainly television watching (no loss there), "reflection" when I'm driving (which sometimes is good and sometimes isn't, because sometimes I reflect on message ideas or meeting I'm about to attend, while at other times I reflect on the driving habits of those around me, and that is nearly never good!), some sleep, as I have found myself waking early on occasion and staying up a little letter to get in an extra 20-30 minutes of prayer, AND blogging.  One of the things I've started to consider is what happens on April 1, when the 31 days and 100 hours is complete?  Since my average prayer per day before this has been about an hour, and the average this month has been about three and a quarter hours, I'm wondering where I'll end up in April.  My guess is that it'll be between two and two and a half hours a day, because I've developed some good prayer patterns that I want to stay with, and prayer like anything else done repetitively day after day becomes "habit-forming." It's a really good habit, that has such positive impact that my prayer is that I continue to press on toward the prize in this vital area of my life.