How To Pray

"HELP ME, O GOD, TO PUT OFF ALL PRETENSES AND TO FIND MY TRUE SELF"

Yesterday was the National Day of Prayer.  This is a particular day of the year that people of faith pray for their country, leaders, churches, communties, families and children.  Any time people gather to pray is good versus the opposite of people not going to God in prayer.  After saying that, I wish there was more honesty, more humility, less of us and more of God in our prayers.  Here are some guidelines I wish more of us would follow when it comes to prayer.

1.  Ask God to teach you how to pray like Jesus's disciples asked him to teach these faithful Jews who knew a style of prayer but saw something in Jesus' prayer life that they wanted and needed.

2.  Read the Psalms and Paul's prayers in his letters to see how prayers were started, what was there content, and how did they en?.  Pray the scriptures.  Pray the Lord's prayer.  Pray in the Spirit.

3.  Listen to God to hear from heaven and pray God's thoughts and heart when you pray.

4.  Go and see if there is a place to enter into ministry, sacrifice, and service for others in your prayers.