Breath Your Prayers

[Snow4JC]

re: Breath your Prayers ~

Blessings ~

Do you say your prayers out loud? Another words do you breath your prayers?

I say my prayers outloud so I put my breath into them.

Someone has written a book about this same thought breathing your prayers, I think this may be the title, I'm not sure.

Snow4JC

[boblandis]

I have never heard of breathing your prayers but I have heard of breath prayers. Breath prayers are short prayers such as "thank you Jesus for saving my soul", "I love You God", Etc. People that take the scripture "pray without ceasing" seriously uses these through the day to further communicate to God outside of regular prayer time to form a "day long" relationship with Him.

[IreneM]

sounds like a hinn concept (I have heard him say more there once to breath our prayers so that they come from our body as well as our heart nonsense) and we need not breath our prayers for them to be heard

In Christ

Irenem

[Leonard]

Long before there was a 'New Age Movement' 4th, 5th and 6th century Greek and Egyptian and Syrian Christian monks were exercising a particular prayer discipline which timed specific prayers to specific breathing patterns. It is in the Philokalia.

[boblandis]

I do not know what they did or didn't do centuries ago, but if you want to call people that like to pray short prayers to God during the day heritics, then so be it.

[refugepsa91]

How did this turn hostile? My goodness posters...the original post asked a simple question...do we say our prayers out loud or do we whisper/say them to ourselves?

For the record I do both. Put your microscopes away people, using them you will ALWAYS find something to argue about. Another thing, I'm sure God loves to hear us talk to him, out loud or silently, I can guarentee He is not up there going "Nope not gonna listen, cuz your not doing it right"

Love and Blessings,

Angel

[apothanein kerdos]

Well certaintly repeating prayers under our breath would be wrong, it is a New Age practice.

However, I don't think that is what is being talked about (maybe some clarification could be given?).

Saying prayers outloud or within the mind do not matter....God hears them either way

[Rania]

One thing I have learned about God......He is not complicated. He wants conversation with us and all the time we spend debating how we pray rather than praying, takes away from time with him. I bet he'd look right at us and say...."You breathed your prayers, shouted your prayers, cried out in your prayers and sang your prayers........but when did you ever stop and listen?" Maybe not.

We seem to be looking for the magic formula in our faith. Our faith is not a formula that is perfectly created through trial and error. It's a relationship, much as the relationships you have with people. It's up and down and changing and just as a friendship grows over the years, so does our relationship with Him. It's not about knowing exactly how to pray. It's about knowing Him.

TAP

[Kabowd]

I do not know what they did or didn't do centuries ago, but if you want to call people that like to pray short prayers to God during the day heritics, then so be it.

No need to put words in my mouth, although I've come to expect that here. Can you imagine the backlash if I had been the one to respond as you have?

You completely twisted what I'm saying. I said, point blank, that we should remain in constant communion with God throughout the day, the meaning of "pray without ceasing". I DID NOT say people can't ever pray out loud or say short prayers! What I am saying is this, and please pay careful attention: that the technique of repeating a "prayer phrase" that can be said in one breath is an establish occult practice. For me not to warn about it would be a sin.

I try and try to write clearly, but it's no use. People are bent on twisting everything I write and some have even begun to follow me around just to give a pat on the back to whomever is disagreeing with me. It's a pathetic display of hypocrisy, of character assassination, of most unChristlike behavior. I'm sick of it. Good riddance to this place!

Sometimes people misunderstand what we say, it's not a big deal. Just clarify and move on. It's really not worth throwing a tantrum over and certainly not fair to blame the entire website everytime someone hurts your feelings or misunderstands you. Instead of lashing out in anger, why not just take the time to explain what you meant? There are alot of us on this site who disagree on various issues, but we are capable of having conversations and discussions even in spite of these differences. Do they sometimes get heated? Absolutely. Sometimes unnecessarily so. But for the most part, we try to give eachother enough grace to express differences...even passionately. If this isn't something you can handle, you might consider taking a break just to let yourself calm down. Either way though, it would be really appreciated if you could make your exit (or take your break) without announcing it in a dramatic display of disapproval of the entire board. Let's have a little more class than that.

[hebrews_beauty]

I think prayer out loud, whispering prayers, prayer alone and prayer in groups, silent prayer, etc...these are all acceptable and can all be beneficial. But as by what the post means by "breathing prayer" I don't know.