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eutychus:
good post joe so true.


5:16
Rejoice evermore.  
5:17
Pray without ceasing.  
5:18
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.  
5:19
Quench not the Spirit.  
5:20
Despise not prophesyings.  
5:21
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.  
5:22
Abstain from all appearance of evil.  
5:23
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
5:24
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

Becky:
In the church world I always had a hard time doing group prayer.  I didn't want to pray outloud.  I always felt that people got disctracted with how they were sounding to others instead of what they were saying to God.  I am definately not a speaker... or a talker.  My ADHD gets in the way and like one time I was pointing out a horse to my husband and said
" LOOK! A...A... A  ...... dog!"
I like those verses on prayer being private.  I have enough trouble communicating vocally. In a group the prayer becomes chatter because I've focused on the people talking (and what I'm going to say when it is my turn).. Besides, many times I pray choppy, and often with just thoughts that I can't put into words... and words arent' necessary all the time either. I love that about prayer! :wink:

shibboleth:
I think the most real prayers I ever prayed was help me Lord. I didn't know how God was going to help me or get me out of my trouble, I just knew I couldn't do it.
I belonged to a prayer group at a church years ago. There were only 3 or 4 of us who met on a weekly basis. I felt so proud that I was there. Now I think how Phariseeic my attitude was towards those who never came.
I would read prayer books and never pray because there were so many hoops to jump through before you could be acceptalbe to God. You had to do this or that before God would listen to you.
I'm glad God understands me even if noone else does.

Becky:
I remember A.C.T.S (Acknowledge, confession, thanksgiving, supplication) ware the rules to pray by. Also, we had to remember to pray for the government, family, prayer group requests, the church, the "lost" etc etc.....

All of those things were the schoolmaster teaching how to pray like Jesus' prayer to his disciples.  

I just think it is amazing how I too would avoid praying because of time (to get all that stuff in) and not feeling like it was personal.

if I did pray it was so ritualistic, just like the dinner prayers my sister and I prayed when we were little:

"Dear God thank you for the trees, the grass and the animals. Amen."

 That reminds me of how so meaningless and repetitive scheduled prayers can become.

rvhill:

--- Quote from: Becky ---I remember my church participating in that. We'd have a special service where we'd hold hands in a hugh circle and go from person to person... I was a teenager then and don't remember its impact on me..

I do remember the "meet you at the pole" day where us highschool (or any school) students, teachers, administrators would circle arount the flagpole before school and pray for things..

I have to admit that I would often be thinking about the "sinful" type of students that didn't participate and how I was better. I am ashamed  :oops:
--- End quote ---


Will I got kicked out of a church, when I was in high school. Instead of doing a group prayer they should do a Communion instead. Sure communion is a thing of milk, but it is in a way a group prayer.

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