Why would a Christian wear a Prayer Shawl?
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How the Lord must laugh at his silly children. Such a discussion over using a prayer shawl or not using one! Some seem to think the decision should depend on Christ himself making a clear statement about what the decision should be, God the Father speaking of it is not enough though scripture tells us they are one.
I don't think our life living with Christ as our guide is dependent on a prayer shawl, do you? I found it a wonderful help with my prayer life, it seemed OK to share it with you all.
I don't think our life living with Christ as our guide is dependent on a prayer shawl, do you? I found it a wonderful help with my prayer life, it seemed OK to share it with you all.
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The Bible speaks of no metaphor called counting beads. One hail Mary , two hail Mary's, ten thousands hail Mary's and a partridge in a pear tree.
Purposes are assigned to objects used in parables. Blankets can keep a person warm and comfort us reminding us of the work of the comforter. Two blankets even warmer. .
Except counting beads is a help thought up by men and a prayer shawl has been thought up by God, big difference.
I have and use a blessed prayer shawl. Here is an experience I had with it. A neighbor was bipolar so her episodes were so severe suicide seemed to her the only escape. She came to me in extreme pain. I told her of my shawl and told her she could use it but she must promise not to think of it as if it was magic, it was to be used as closing off the world and being alone with God. She promised. With prayer, I put it around her.
Her face immediately change, she looked me with wonder and said "that is powerful". She went home with that bipolar episode over.
It is so true that listening to the suggestions of our God is powerful.
We take the meaning of the new covenant so literally that it amounts to being Ghostic, with only the "spiritual" having meaning. It isn't that we don't cut foreskin to announce our being God's child, but we deny everything physical. God tells us to listen to the Holy Spirit to guide us, not to deny God is in our physical life.
I have and use a blessed prayer shawl. Here is an experience I had with it. A neighbor was bipolar so her episodes were so severe suicide seemed to her the only escape. She came to me in extreme pain. I told her of my shawl and told her she could use it but she must promise not to think of it as if it was magic, it was to be used as closing off the world and being alone with God. She promised. With prayer, I put it around her.
Her face immediately change, she looked me with wonder and said "that is powerful". She went home with that bipolar episode over.
It is so true that listening to the suggestions of our God is powerful.
We take the meaning of the new covenant so literally that it amounts to being Ghostic, with only the "spiritual" having meaning. It isn't that we don't cut foreskin to announce our being God's child, but we deny everything physical. God tells us to listen to the Holy Spirit to guide us, not to deny God is in our physical life.
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No scripture you presented mentions prayer shawl so there’s a problem. There is no support that God thought up prayer shawls but more likely men did, same as with prayer beads.
I can make a case biblically for facing Jerusalem when praying. You cannot make one for prayer shawls. That they wore clothes with or without tassels doesn't come close to that garment being a shawl.
That your neighbor thought the material itself powerful is telling. You telling her she shouldn’t think so didn’t work.
I can make a case biblically for facing Jerusalem when praying. You cannot make one for prayer shawls. That they wore clothes with or without tassels doesn't come close to that garment being a shawl.
That your neighbor thought the material itself powerful is telling. You telling her she shouldn’t think so didn’t work.