There are
different kinds of prayer and those I have witnessed work each and every time happened when some other force took control of the prayer.
The prayer for a sense of God's presence, often referred to as the prayer of communion, belongs in the midst of every
other kind of prayer.
Here's the deal, and everyone is going to be suprised that I say this, but if having one
particular kind of prayer hinders business, then just have a seperate room where those of group «A» can go if they wish and hold prayer.
Nevertheless, I repeat that though we need all of these things, nothing is more needed than a general upsurge of the
right kind of prayer.
The higher sort, we are told, offers no advice to God; it consists only of «communication»... with Him; and those who take this line seem to suggest that the
lower kind of prayer really is an absurdity and that only children and savages would use it.
I don't think our conversion or discipleship experiences are meant to be exactly the same, and I am suspicious of anyone who insists that a restored relationship with God is dependent upon knowing a certain set of propositional statements or praying a
certain kind of prayer.
Let the sectarian battles over what's considered the «right»
kind of prayer begin... just as the founders feared.
Here is how he handles the list of four
kinds of prayer given in 1 Timothy 2:1: «I urge first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made.»
The author discusses
various kinds of prayer in the traditional motifs — petition, intercession, confession, thanksgiving and adoration.
In the second place, though the
other kind of prayer may be «higher» if you restrict yourself to it because you have got beyond the desire to use any other, there is nothing especially «high» or «spiritual» about abstaining from prayers that make requests simply because you think they're no good.
So many of us are used to
the kind of prayer where we tell God things He already knows, as if Jesus needs a reminder kids are dying in Sudan.
You can start
this kind of prayer by taking a verse like Romans 5:8, «But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.»
As music is
her kind of prayer, Alice still practices piano - Bach, Beethoven, Schubert — for three hours every day.
Spurgeon proved the worth of
that kind of prayer.
It just seems incongruous to me, Sabio, that one
kind of prayer is a speaking to «invisible friends» and other kinds of prayers are ok.
The adjectives are chosen designedly, for there are
kinds of prayer that are useless or worse than useless — indeed, blasphemous.
I love David's story of transformation in Salford because I've engaged in
this kind of prayer over three decades in cities and towns across Europe, standing with local believers to declare God's promises over their area.
Yes,
those kinds of prayer are answered at all times.
(I know this isn't my regular Prayer From the Cell, but this is
a kind of prayer from a real cell, isn't it?)
When the loneliness comes, two lines come to mind, together forming
a kind of prayer.
Other
kinds of prayer were also suspicious.
All of that is religious prayer, which is not
the kind of prayer God wants.
Katherine, Have you ever heard or read anyone teach about
this kind of prayer?
And from there it is another short step to «God allows
all kinds of prayers» - for victory in battle, for the defeat of enemies, for the smashing of a corrupt political regime, for the removal of a hated social or economic system.
The «right»
kind of prayer should be inclusive of as many Americans as possible.
Each type merits its own special analysis and presents its own peculiar problems, yet all
these kinds of prayers still possess the generic character of communication of man with God.
Are you aware, that many of the actions against school prayer over the years were not begun by atheists at all, but by those of other religions (primarily Jews) and those of Christian sects that disagreed with
the kind of prayer being offered.
I contend that is not a god and that is not
the kind of prayers David is weighing in his scales.
In those instances I have had to content myself with worshipping from home, sometimes along with a TV show; other times I listened to a DVD or CD, reviewed notes from Bible College, or spent time in intercessory or other
kinds of prayer.
Nevertheless speaking in tongues may serve maturing if it stays within
the kind of prayer that belongs to the transition that Chapter 3 has been describing.
The kinds of prayers that Process Theology leads us toward are not, «Please God let me win the lottery,» but, «Please God, I want to hear your voice, I invite your presence into my heart, I want to do the best thing possible and I want your help in deciding what that would be.»
We meet a new world when we meet the old world in the spirit which
this kind of prayer infuses.
In the face of all this, he is a passive man, trusting in waiting, silence, and in
a kind of prayer for the losses to be returned.