For me - prayer is a conversation. It isn't just one component. It is time for talking to God as well as listening to God. It is sometimes full of joy but it is also sometimes full of tears and cries for help. It isn't just talking.
When I was younger, I went with my family on vacation to Enid Lake. There was a cabin that overlooked a ravine. It was beautiful. Early one quiet morning, I woke up to the smell of coffee. My family is full of coffee drinkers. I found my dad out on the balcony. I asked what he was doing. He told me he was listening. And asked if I heard it too.
Listen in the midst of the quiet for the voice of God! I try to live my life as a prayer.
Amanda
i believe that prayer is my time with god for others, to pray for there requests and for my own, feel really close to god then, and feel calm. I need to pray more :)
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From: Amanda Webster <oneoddduck3@yahoo.com>
To: FOG <familyofgod@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, September 26, 2010 10:44:48 PM
Subject: [FamilyofGod] Prayer
So, this is supposed to be a group of prayer. So, I was thinking --
How do you pray? What IS prayer to you in the first place? Is there a way to truly "pray continually" or "pray without ceasing"? What does that even mean? What are things that hinder our prayers?
If we are a prayer group, then -- let's discuss prayer!!
AmandaThere is an optimistic belief widespread among the generous-hearted that the average human being has only to become sufficiently acquainted with another's trouble or danger to transfer it to his own shoulders not merely unhesitatingly but gladly. --Margery Allingham
Bear one another's burdens. Galatians 6:2
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