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Contents List For this article on "Why do We Pray?"
* I Connect and Communicate with God
* I Serve God and Receive Guidance. I Have A Sense of Purpose
* I Pray Out of Habit. Prayers of Desperation
* I Pray Out of Belief In The Power of Thoughts. I Experiment. I Join My Mind With Others
* I Love God. I am Devoted To God
* A Spiritual Poem - Always in Prayer
Why do we pray? What are the reasons for prayer? What are the benefits of prayer?
Below are some of my thoughts.
I have written this spiritual article in the first person (I) so that when the reasons for prayer are your own, you are saying an affirmation about your own commitment to prayer whilst you read.
Being clear on your motivation can help you to persevere in prayer when you feel like giving up.
Why do we pray?... Reasons for prayer 1
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Why do we pray?...Reasons for prayer 3
The following reasons for prayer are perhaps not the faith-filled reasons we would aspire to. Yet it is often during difficult times that we become willing to take up the habit of prayer. A prayer of desperation can lead us into a powerful experience of God's love.
If you think you are praying for the “wrong” reasons, pray anyway. As ACIM says,“Your little willingness is enough”, God will do the rest.
Why do we pray?...Reasons for prayer 4
Why do we pray?...Reasons for prayer 5
A Spiritual Poem About Prayer
Always in Prayer
My prayer is
the opening of a vent:
my world,
a little less stagnant,
I breathe.
My prayer is
the opening of a shutter:
my world,
a little less dark,
I see.
Let me be
always in prayer.
It's OK to find that prayer gives you access to a bigger, lighter world.
“Praise be to God,
who has not rejected my prayer
or withheld his love from me!”
(Psalm 66:20, NIV)
© Katherine T Owen
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