Prayer is a comfort to many people.
The answer is important, but the act of praying is part of the resolution to our need. Just having someone listen is important.
It begins the bridging process between need and answer, between oppressed and life-giver, between despair and hope.
Prayer is the beginning of our connection with God.
So, what’s the best way to pray? How do we convey our heart-felt desires to the Father above?
Praise? Is that the best avenue? Butter up God so he is inclined favorably toward us?
Or should we simply state our need and move on? God knows, anyway, so we don’t need to clarify the obvious.
Prayer experts say we need to be in a constant state of prayer, to live our lives letting our words and thoughts slide easily from the earthly plane to the heavenly one, for there to be no real distinction between our physical existence and our spiritual one.
Matthew 6:9 tells us how to begin.
“Pray then like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.’”
The passage in Matthew tells us more, but to get started, this is all we need.
Our Father.
We recognize that God is in control. He is the master of our fate. He is our Lord.
In Heaven.
God is not of this world. He created us. He is not mortal but is more.
Hallowed be your name.
Hallowed can be read as holy, sanctified, blessed, consecrated, or deified. He is the one we worship, for he has all the power, and our help flows from him.
That’s enough to get us started. Do we need to use those exact words? We can, but it’s the idea that matters.
The rest will come as our heart connects with God.
We find God when we reach out through prayer. Our prayer is our link with him.
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