Seven Keys And Effective Prayer

Things aren't right here on planet Earth. We all know this. Sickness, poverty, injustice, and oppression are not God's intention or design. Many of our prayers will be devoted to fixing what is wrong in our bodies, our finances, our relationships, our world. The children of God continue to pray, even though many wrongs have not yet been corrected. Does it do any good? Does all this praying have any traction with God?

Prayer is an essential to any kind of religious faith. Over the years and years of believing in a higher power,

The Spindrift organization spent a decade performing laboratory experiments trying to determine which prayer strategy was most effective: directed prayer for a specific outcome, or non-directed prayer, having no specific outcome. Directed prayer participants tried to “direct” the process of prayer with having an outcome in mind. For example one may wish to rid a person of cancer, or recovering from a heart disease. Non-directed prayer, on the other hand, approach prayer with a more open-ended mind-set, in which no specific outcome was held in mind. Dossey considered that the Spindrift research experiments has given us much evidence to demonstrate that non-directed prayer works better than directing prayer for a specific outcome. The Spindrift researchers tried to grow mould on the surface of agar plates used routinely by bacteriologists. After stressing but not killing a patch of mould, directed prayer was used to encourage growth on one side of the plate while non-directed prayer was used on the other side of the divided glass surface. Directed prayer produced no results. Non-directed prayer produced multiplication of the mould into concentric growth rings. These and other experiments conducted by Spindrift give indications for the best prayer method to use in situations when we don 't know what should happen. When non-directed prayer is answered, the outcome is always in the direction

The third movement is from illusion to prayer. Nouwen (1986) indicated that most people live their lives in an illusion that they will never die. They believe that they hold the key to all that happens in their lives. They do not put God first in their lives and they do not realize that God is in control of every aspect of their lives. There are three essentials elements to a fulfilling prayer life; the Bible, silence, and spiritual guide (Nouwen, 1986). Reading the Bible, and being silence as we mediate on the word of God. We gain understanding through the power of the Holy Spirit. These spiritual references are able to help us work through the challenges we may encounter.

The patient is encouraged to focus on the “stream of experience,” and to think of his experiences as “real life,” never questioning what this real means. a) The patient’s feelings, Screwtape says, should be twisted in such a way that he gauges his prayer’s success by the amount which his desired feelings have been fufilled. b) Praying this way destroys real prayer because the patient will begin to see prayer as an

(Pause) Prayer is what we do to win battles against the forces of evil.., to ward off satan's schemes. You gotta get on your knees. To win the battle.

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But for argumentation praying can be used for other things too other than an emotional state other than hope. Prayer could be used to say you pray to be financially stable in your life. Like if your in debt or times are extremely tough with paying for rent you can hold on to prayer and pray that some things pull through as in you pray that something positive will happen. A perfect example for prayer when you see a homeless person who are on the streets who have nothing for themselves so they hold on to prayer. A quick story to get a better understanding of this word is a customer once walked into McDonald's and asked for a sandwich and was denied because did not have enough money so another customer who overheard him get denied ordered him an entire meal and give him the change of $20.The kind man said “God bless you I PRAY all will be well with you.” And the homeless man replied “Prayer is all I have thank you good sir” with a smile on his face. Having a

We pray to have a day-by-day, moment-by-moment relationship with God through knowing Him and communicating with him. When we pray we do much more than just talking to God, yes we are doing or saying something, but mainly it's just being in God's presence. Prayer serves the purpose of giving us a relationship with God, and communicating with Him.

Having been a Christian for many years I thought that I had a fair knowledge of what it meant to pray. I was amazed and humbled by the idea that through Jesus’ restorative act on the cross I am able to come into God’s presence - and not only come but be welcomed and even longed for. I believed that prayer is a powerful tool to petition God , a vehicle to praise Him , and an instrument to increase our intimacy with Him . I understood that people pray in a variety of ways, based on the teaching they have received, their experience, and even their personality. Most commonly, I engaged in prayer as a conversation with God.