Is it required to have a set prayer time?  Are we required to pray early in the morning versus mid day, evening, or late at night?  Is 5am or 6pm the "right" time to meet the Lord?  Is this the ONLY time we have commune with him?

I have heard it expressed that if you can count the times you prayed during any given day, that you have not prayed enough.  That is simply agreeing with the scriptural thought that we should pray unceasingly.

As for lengths of prayers, take a look at the Bible book of Nehemiah, chapter 2, verses 1-5.  Take particular note of vesre 4!!!  How long do you think THAT prayer lasted?

Apparently, there is no set length for prayers.  Also, wasn't the hypocritical leaders of Jesus' day rebuked by Jesus for making a showy display of their fake holiness by praying in order to be seen by others?  Not sure on that 1.

Just as someone stated in their response prayer is communication with God and I always like to use this phrase "Communication is to a relationship what blood is to the body."  If you lose too much blood then you die.  We must communicate with God in order to have an effective relationship with God.  I feel that if we don't have a set time to pray we should at least thank him for waking us up in the morning because he didn't have to.  The bible says pray without ceasing but I do think that we should set a specific time aside in the day to specifically shut everything and everyone out and just commune with God it's necessary in order for an effective relationship. How can you have a relationship with some one that you never sit down and talk to or take the time to hear what they have to say.

Prayer is indeed communicaiton with God, but all relationships must have times set aside to be built up.  A marriage in which a man does not take time to get to know his wife will become an unhappy man.  Yes we should pray without ceasing but if we were to communicate with our spouses the way that we communicate with God our marriages would crumble.  We wake up in the morning and talk with God for 2 minutes, then throughout the day we talk to God in our minds for a few seconds and when we go to bed we pray for 2 minutes again and fall asleep.  Imagine if we spoke to our family members for 2 minutes in the morning and thought about conversations with him in our head throughout the day and when we went to bed talked to them for 2 minutes.  Our families would break down.  Therefore our prayers should have set time periods where we can talk with God and get to know him.

Uncle T is that you...lol.  Man that sounds like something my uncle would say...i fully agree.

Speaking for myself, I do not have regular times to pray.  I pray several times each day, nonetheless.

My question for Lon is are you suggesting that Jesus did not pray regularly?

1 Thessalonians 5:17 MSG

pray all the time;

So simply put...we should be praying all the time, without fail.  No matter if you have a set time daily OR if you pray when you want.  The bottom line that supports scripture is that we are to PRAY!!!  I also agree with you Lon that I do not see in scripture where we are mandated at a certain time daily to pray...BUT we are to PRAY!!!