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How Do You Pray?
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by Sputnic | July 26, 2009 at 10:57 am
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Should Christians prostrate in prayer as Muslims do? Please comment and give me your oppinions. How did Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David and Jesus prey?
A few Biblical verses should clarify the situation. Genesis 17: 3 "And Abraham fell on his face and God talked with him". Numbers 20:6 (Moses and Aaron) They fell upon their faces and the glory of the lord appeared unto them.
Joshua 7:6 [Joshua] "....Fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord untill eventide"
Jesus: Mathew 26: 39 "going a little farther, he fell with his face to the groung and preyed".
Mathew 17:16 "When the disciples heard this, they fell face down to the ground, terrified".
Many other verses are to be found in this Youtube video in the following link.
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at 13:41 on July 26th, 2009
The bible does not tell us to do it this way. They followed the customs of the day.
Prayer must be sincere, must give thanks in addition to asking for help and must not ask for bad things.
If this is done the prayer will be heard but not all prayers get a yes answer.
at 14:24 on July 26th, 2009
It is possible that you are right, God may well answer the prayers of the sincere no matter how they pray. Why then, though, has every messenger of God, prayed as a muslim does today? You saw the video !
at 16:00 on July 26th, 2009
That was the custom 1, 2 4 thousand years ago. Just as it was a custom to bow to rulers of nations.
Customs change.
There is nothing wrong with how Muslims pray, it is admirable. But if they are not sincere how they pray will not matter.,
at 16:15 on July 26th, 2009
Everything bad and good is allowed by God for reasons we cannot understand. Even the hateful Rev. Wright was correct when he said Obama will be president if God wants him too..but not for the material reasons everyone believes. This is not the place for a really long discussion for such a question. Here are some
versions from different "Bibles".
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
"But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.
But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees from the hidden place will reward you.
When you pray, go to your room and close the door. Pray privately to your Father who is with you. Your Father sees what you do in private. He will reward you.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee open
But you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret; and your Father which sees in secret shall reward you openly
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee
But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your rewar
But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will render it to thee.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense thee.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret, will reward thee openly.
But you, whenever you pray, go into your own room and shut the door: then pray to your But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.
With Christ a new dispensation came . Most do not use methods from the Old Testament. It is studied for it is our history.
6:5-8 It is taken for granted that all who are disciples of Christ pray. You may as soon find a living man that does not breathe, as a living Christian that does not pray. If prayerless, then graceless. The Scribes and Pharisees were guilty of two great faults in prayer, vain-glory and vain repetitions. Verily they have their reward; if in so great a matter as is between us and God, when we are at prayer, we can look to so poor a thing as the praise of men, it is just that it should be all our reward. Yet there is not a secret, sudden breathing after God, but he observes it. It is called a reward, but it is of grace, not of debt; what merit can there be in begging? If he does not give his people what they ask, it is because he knows they do not need it, and that it is not for their good. So far is God from being wrought upon by the length or words of our prayers, that the most powerful intercessions are those which are made with groanings that cannot be uttered. Let us well study what is shown of the frame of mind in which our prayers should be offered, and learn daily from Christ how to pray.
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at 18:04 on July 26th, 2009
Good comment.
It does seem prayers should be limited to worship centers or at home and not be done in public places.
"Everything bad and good is allowed by God for reasons we cannot understand." I see this a little differently. Most of God's promises are to be fulfilled in heaven or they are promises for spiritual help on earth, and not meant to provde physical needs on earth.
at 11:05 on July 27th, 2009
I agree in a way with your standpoint in reference to what God allows. I believe the allowance is due to the ability of choice. Without choice there is no love and no faith. Therefore, in my mind it is not so much that God allows things to happen whether they are good or bad, but every event is necessitated and alloted for by the gift of choice.
at 11:36 on July 27th, 2009
I think it is a little deeper than that.
The bible says God is a spirit and he works in the spiritual realm.
I think God is very limited in what he can do in the physical world at this time.
While he can give is spiritual healing he mostly cannot heal physical ills and cannot stop bad things from happening.
at 18:22 on July 26th, 2009
Thanks for this story ! It´s good to meditate on our prayer life. Praying has been set aside by many living in these modern times, the truth is, it should be a way of living. To pray without ceasing is like the breathing of our soul.
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.
1 Tesalonians. 5:16
at 20:18 on July 26th, 2009
patgarcia
Good comment
at 03:38 on July 27th, 2009
Prayer is giving thanks to God, we have free will a gift from God, bad does not come from God it comes from imperfect creatures making mistakes and also from bad forces. Jesus describes himself as the son of man 81 times in the Bible
at 05:43 on July 27th, 2009
I agree.Jesus also many times referred to himself as the Son of God.
He was both God and Man.
at 07:37 on July 27th, 2009
Whome is Jesus refering to in John 14:16-17 "And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever, even the spirit of truth". John 16:13-14 "When the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me..."
at 10:10 on July 27th, 2009
Jesus is speaking of the Holy Spirit, the spirit of God, the third person of the triune God.
at 10:52 on July 27th, 2009
So you think Jesus is saying a prayer to God in order for God to give people God and that Jesus is, in fact, also God ?
at 10:54 on July 27th, 2009
So you think Jesus is saying a prayer to God in order for God to give people God and that Jesus is, in fact, also God ?
at 07:48 on July 27th, 2009
Matthew 23:9 Jesus says, "and call no man father upon the earth, for one is the father in heaven". The Bible was re-compilled/written in ancient Greek, the ancient Greeks only had one word for son and servant (sorry, the word escapes me, but please check for yourselves) this word was translated as servant in reference to Moses but as son in reference to Jesus, why? Jesus spoke of himself as the servant of God not the son as is evidenced by the references he gives to himself as being the son of man.
at 10:33 on July 27th, 2009
The Greek word for son is HUIOS.
The Greek word for servant ios DOULOS
at 10:49 on July 27th, 2009
Ancient Greek not modern Greek as I made perfectly clear. The words you just used are modern Greek.
at 10:55 on July 27th, 2009
The words I used are the words used in the bible, as written in Greek of the 1st century,
Maybe you were referring to the Hebrew of the Old Testament.
at 13:45 on July 27th, 2009
No not old testament, new testament.
at 17:44 on July 27th, 2009
I gave you the original words used in the NT
at 15:41 on July 27th, 2009
Or to put it another way 158; you are claiming that Jesus prayed to himself to ask himself to send himself ? Is this the triun of which you speak ?
at 17:46 on July 27th, 2009
No. I gave you the Catholic doctrine.
at 16:05 on July 27th, 2009
Interesting point Sputnic, the concept of the trinity is confusing to say the least, i have always thought of it this way, God is all powerful right, of that we can all agree. Also God is everywhere all the time so why would he need to have three parts to be in varing places at once
at 18:03 on July 27th, 2009
One way this is explained is a hand. The fingers are separate from each other but work together as a hand.,
God is a spirit and mostly cannot change the physical world,
Jesus was able to come to earth in a human body and as a physical and spiritual divine bering he was able to work miracles where God could not.
at 20:22 on July 27th, 2009
I sometimes give money to my imaginary friend, just in case he's real!
at 03:23 on July 28th, 2009
God who made the physical world cannot change it ? How does that work ?
at 09:32 on July 30th, 2009
I will write something about this soon.
at 03:28 on July 28th, 2009
Good comment info.star thank you. Also thanks Barry Artiste good point well made ! Worshipping God the way you imagine God to be, as opposed reality, is another form of idolatry
at 05:30 on August 4th, 2009
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