farouk Posted March 3 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,398 Content Per Day: 12.16 Reputation: 3,269 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted March 3 2 hours ago, Tristen said: Yes - God is our loving Father, and we are each His beloved child. The relationship is real. The love is real. This is the basis of our fellowship and communion with our heavenly Father. Therefore prayer is not a chore. Prayer is the joy and privilege of speaking with the Creator - as His beloved child - without hypocrisy or fear - with due respect, but without religious formalities - without trying to impress Him - knowing that He already knows us, and loves us completely. @Tristen "Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness my beauty are, my glorious dress; 'midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed, with joy shall I lift up my head." (Count Zinzendorf) What a joyous prayer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tristen Posted March 3 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 9 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,367 Content Per Day: 0.63 Reputation: 1,340 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/26/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted March 3 1 hour ago, farouk said: @Tristen "Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness my beauty are, my glorious dress; 'midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed, with joy shall I lift up my head." (Count Zinzendorf) What a joyous prayer! Prayers can take many beautiful forms. I nevertheless suspect God cares more for sincere, heartfelt communication, than He does for a prayer cast in classical English poetic prose. - Which is not to belittle pretty prayers. However, we should be careful to keep prayer within reach of everyone. Prayer is simply talking with our beloved Creator - as a child might speak to their own father. Prayer doesn't have to be pretty or clever. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Adrien Posted March 3 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 452 Content Per Day: 4.71 Reputation: 384 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/22/2024 Status: Online Share Posted March 3 Prayer shouldn't be a gimme fest. Self absorbed prayer is not Christian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted March 3 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 952 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,573 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,054 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted March 3 1 hour ago, D. Adrien said: Prayer shouldn't be a gimme fest. Self absorbed prayer is not Christian. Hi, Nor evidently is it answered if it is a gimme fest: "Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” Humility Cures Worldliness Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, youdouble-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up." excerpt from The Book of James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted March 3 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 952 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,573 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,054 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted March 3 A prayer may be as short and urgent as Peter's Lord help me!, or as long as Nehemiah's 1200 plus words of prayer. As I see it the prayer and it's "format" kinda depends on the situation at hand at any given moment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Adrien Posted March 3 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 452 Content Per Day: 4.71 Reputation: 384 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/22/2024 Status: Online Share Posted March 3 (edited) I've had prayers answered before the prayer was concluded, praying about my bad attitude! Edit: it was a blessing to my wife. Edited March 3 by D. Adrien Self absorbed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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