What is Prayer?

What is Prayer?

Prayer affirms our belief that there is something beyond our small, separate identity. What is prayer for then? It is an acknowledgement that we are part of something bigger than ourselves.

		A Poem About Prayer Something Bigger Than You When you pray, you are saying there is something bigger than you – something you are connected to and which cares about you. And all of this is much more beneficial than the belief in separation and loneliness. It’s OK to practise believing in a God that cares about you. It’s OK to understand it is only your belief that He doesn’t which is keeping Him out. “Turn to the Name of God for your release, and it is given you. No prayer but this is necessary, for it holds them all within it. Words are insignificant, and all requests unneeded when God's Son calls on his Father's Name. His Father's Thoughts become his own.” (W-183.10, A Course In Miracles) © Katherine T Owen, 2009. Other spiritual poems on this site. For an explanation of the release – It’s OK to... For a discussion on the use of a spiritual quote.

Contents List for What Is Prayer?:

Why Do We Pray? - What is Prayer For?

How To Pray To God (Page 2)

What To Do When Too Sick or Too Stuck To Pray (Page 2) (Page 3)

A Practice of Daily Prayers
Includes links to the following famous prayers and my experience of using them:

• Our Father prayer/The Lord’s prayer
• Hail Mary prayer
• Holy Spirit prayer
• Psalm 91 - a prayer for protection

  Psalm 91 - a prayer for peace of mind

  Psalm 91 - a prayer for strength

• My roots go down deep...
• Prayer for leaders
  

Another famous and powerful prayer I used greatly when living with illness:

• The Serenity Prayer - A Prayer For Acceptance of What Is And For Wisdom

Different Forms of Prayer
This includes the following:

• Prayers Of Agreement - The Power of Joined Minds


• Communicating with God


• How Do I Hear God's Voice - A Number of Views


• Prayers to ask God for something


• Prayers for self-forgiveness


• Prayer for forgiveness of another


• Traditional prayer, including The Power of Joined Minds


(Includes Psalm 23 - The Lord is My Shepherd Prayer)


Prayer FORUM - SHARE About Your Own Journey With Prayer

A Powerful Prayer to Know God Love, Joy, Peace

You might also want to look at an example of how to pray the Bible. You will find this in the pages on Scriptures For Healing.

There is of course much more I could say on the subject of What is Prayer?
I could for example look at:



• Meditation


• Prayers for others


• The practice of gratitude


• Worship and devotion


• Prayer through song and hymns


• Visualisation and affirmation


• Finding God in nature
  (Spiritual poems have been submitted to a-spiritual-journey-oh about this.)


• Prayer for guidance


• Liturgical prayer


• Prayer through ritual



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What is Prayer For? -
It is one way in which we open our minds to let in love. Only the love is real. The love of God is always HERE for us, NOW.

“Lift up your heads, O you gates;
be lifted up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.”
(Psalm 24: 5, NIV)

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