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I remember reading a post by someone who got really offended over how people use prayer as a vehicle for vicious gossip and attack upon members of the church and community pretending to pray to God.
I also read in that thread about using prayer to teach the hearer and how prayers should between you and God.
to an extent I agree. i think everyone should spend some part of their day in personal private prayer with GOd when you pour your heart out to Him and ask him to heal you. when you ask God to reveal the things you did wrong and learn from your mistakes and things and people you need to help heal and make amends for hurting in your past and learning what God wants you to do with your future.
However, I was reading the Bible and it seems to just jump out at me and say. Hey Jesus prayed for the benefit of His hearers. there is nothing wrong with praying and reminding ourselves and our hearers of God's promises. lessons about His commandments and other wisdom God places in our hearts when we are praying to speak out loud and affirm with our mouths that we believe in God and His word and His promises. It is faith affirming to pray both alone and with others.
John 11
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.[d] And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” 43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
I like hearing wisdom and lessons and words that remind me of God's love even if some might find the prayers "preach" or "pompous" I don't think they are meant that way. I don't think the speakers heart means for it to be so. I know when I pray I don't think of how my words might sound to others. it is until afterwards I hear the muttering and the words of "she thinks she is so much better then us, blah blah blah"
and it cuts. you know I try not to think about it because I know it is a lie. I know my list of sins and faults and shortcomings and I will not be made to feel guilty because I can't say I'm sinless because I can say without a doubt that I am blameless for I walk as best as God's grace allows in the Spirit of my Lord Jesus Christ.
But i pray ever day and God reveals me my sins and my shortcomings and how i have not reached the goal but daily continue to strive for that upward call of God.
Is there a wrong way to pray?
we could go into the tongues topic but we won't. we could talk about music or dance or other forms of worship but we won't.
Instead we will let God's Word speak for Himself.
Ephesians 5:18-21
New King James Version (NKJV)
18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.[a]
you see I don't worry about my sin until i no longer hear that melody in my heart that continously praises the Lord and His mercy and grace. when i get so selfish and caught up in me and my desires that I forget to pray and do not realize I have walked away from my Lord. only then do I fear for I do not have His light to show me the way, but I have found if I fall on my knees and pray. God is quick to answer and His song is more wonderful and precious then words can truly describe.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ2OMoFuHQQ[/video]
I also read in that thread about using prayer to teach the hearer and how prayers should between you and God.
to an extent I agree. i think everyone should spend some part of their day in personal private prayer with GOd when you pour your heart out to Him and ask him to heal you. when you ask God to reveal the things you did wrong and learn from your mistakes and things and people you need to help heal and make amends for hurting in your past and learning what God wants you to do with your future.
However, I was reading the Bible and it seems to just jump out at me and say. Hey Jesus prayed for the benefit of His hearers. there is nothing wrong with praying and reminding ourselves and our hearers of God's promises. lessons about His commandments and other wisdom God places in our hearts when we are praying to speak out loud and affirm with our mouths that we believe in God and His word and His promises. It is faith affirming to pray both alone and with others.
John 11
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.[d] And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” 43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
I like hearing wisdom and lessons and words that remind me of God's love even if some might find the prayers "preach" or "pompous" I don't think they are meant that way. I don't think the speakers heart means for it to be so. I know when I pray I don't think of how my words might sound to others. it is until afterwards I hear the muttering and the words of "she thinks she is so much better then us, blah blah blah"
and it cuts. you know I try not to think about it because I know it is a lie. I know my list of sins and faults and shortcomings and I will not be made to feel guilty because I can't say I'm sinless because I can say without a doubt that I am blameless for I walk as best as God's grace allows in the Spirit of my Lord Jesus Christ.
But i pray ever day and God reveals me my sins and my shortcomings and how i have not reached the goal but daily continue to strive for that upward call of God.
Is there a wrong way to pray?
we could go into the tongues topic but we won't. we could talk about music or dance or other forms of worship but we won't.
Instead we will let God's Word speak for Himself.
Ephesians 5:18-21
New King James Version (NKJV)
18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.[a]
you see I don't worry about my sin until i no longer hear that melody in my heart that continously praises the Lord and His mercy and grace. when i get so selfish and caught up in me and my desires that I forget to pray and do not realize I have walked away from my Lord. only then do I fear for I do not have His light to show me the way, but I have found if I fall on my knees and pray. God is quick to answer and His song is more wonderful and precious then words can truly describe.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ2OMoFuHQQ[/video]
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