As a newish Christian I have only just plucked up the courage to question why some people pray the way they do. I thought for a while there that I had to learn all the jargon otherwise I might not be worthy of "praying in the midst" so to speak.
For instance, have you ever had that experience of trying to pray out loud while a rather over-zealous fellow pray-er encourages you with a barrage of "Yes Lord. Yes Lord. Yes Lord. Yes Lord. Hallelujah Lord. Hallelujah Lord. Yes Lord. Yes Lord.Yes Lord"
It is fascinating how we pick up prayer habits from others. You can almost guess which denomination ( sorry "stream" ) a person is from these days by the way they pray.
Here's another really good one -
"Father God, we just want to pray God, that you God, will help us God, to pray God. Thank you God." Know what I mean?
Oh yes, and the other thing. Why is it that we start praying to "Father", swop horses midstream to "Jesus", then to "Lord" ( kind of non-committal ) and occassionally remember that maybe its the "Holy Spirit" who is actually in the room. I don't want to get pedantic and certainly not critical of others, nor am I asking for logic to be applied. Still if it has made me more concious, Hallelujah, of exactly what I say Jesus when I'm, Praise the Lord Father, "God bothering", Hallelujah, that's a good thing. Amen. Isn't it?
Anyway, I'm grateful that here at FAITH we believe in being very practical, not tarting up our prayers with cliches. So if the enemy seems to be having a go by getting the postman to plaster an envelope in marmite, thus giving the impression, to the less courageous nose, of it being something much less 'savoury', we pray so!
Please Lord protect us and show us what's going on with Marmite and stuff.
Thankfully our Executive Director smelt a rat, in more ways than one, so to speak.
For instance, have you ever had that experience of trying to pray out loud while a rather over-zealous fellow pray-er encourages you with a barrage of "Yes Lord. Yes Lord. Yes Lord. Yes Lord. Hallelujah Lord. Hallelujah Lord. Yes Lord. Yes Lord.Yes Lord"
It is fascinating how we pick up prayer habits from others. You can almost guess which denomination ( sorry "stream" ) a person is from these days by the way they pray.
Here's another really good one -
"Father God, we just want to pray God, that you God, will help us God, to pray God. Thank you God." Know what I mean?
Oh yes, and the other thing. Why is it that we start praying to "Father", swop horses midstream to "Jesus", then to "Lord" ( kind of non-committal ) and occassionally remember that maybe its the "Holy Spirit" who is actually in the room. I don't want to get pedantic and certainly not critical of others, nor am I asking for logic to be applied. Still if it has made me more concious, Hallelujah, of exactly what I say Jesus when I'm, Praise the Lord Father, "God bothering", Hallelujah, that's a good thing. Amen. Isn't it?
Anyway, I'm grateful that here at FAITH we believe in being very practical, not tarting up our prayers with cliches. So if the enemy seems to be having a go by getting the postman to plaster an envelope in marmite, thus giving the impression, to the less courageous nose, of it being something much less 'savoury', we pray so!
Please Lord protect us and show us what's going on with Marmite and stuff.Thankfully our Executive Director smelt a rat, in more ways than one, so to speak.
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