What is Prayer?
Good day Steemians. Prior to this post I did an intro to prayer. You can go through it by clicking here.
Today, I will be writing on "What Prayer is." I know at some point we must have asked ourselves this question. Sit back as I take you through the corridors of prayer.
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What is Prayer?
Many definitions of prayer have been passed from generation to generation. I believe there is not anyone who will not reply impulsively that prayer is communing with God.
It is communion between our recreated spirit and the Uncreated Spirit of the Universe—God.
Prayer is the crying out to God with our entire being, it is the supplication of our innermost person.
"Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul."
—Psalms 25:1
Prayer is the turning of the human soul—personality and mind— upwards towards God. We learn what is not available anywhere else. We come to know our heart as it is revealed to us by God.
"The heart is deceitful above all things , and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings."
—Jeremiah 17:9—10, KJV.
However, anyone in a place of total sincerity before God will discover a blessedness in prayer beyond anything he had hitherto dreamed. But there is a cost involved—the cost of commitment, of time.
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The time to begin praying is not when you are in trouble as so many folks do
The summary of Jesus' parable in Luke 18:1 revealed that "men have been condemned to prayer" so Apostle Paul could boldly say "pray without ceasing."
In Acts 6:4, the Apostles said to themselves;
"...we will give ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word." And as such it was their habit to pray.
See Acts 10:9
"On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour."
It was Jesus' custom to pray.
Mark 6:46
"And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray."
A life well-planned in and developed by prayer becomes a great life eventually. Prayer puts an indelible stamp upon every thought and action of the one who makes it a vital part of his life. The inevitable result of making prayer a way of life is the change of one's very being, the reshaping of his personality into the shape of God.
Please, stop and think!
I'll drop my pen now. I hope this writeup was a blessing to you. I will continue on "Prayer" in my next post. I will be writing on "The Influence of the Knowledge of the Word of God in our praying."
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