People pray for a variety of reasons. Sometimes a prayer is purely a prayer of praise. We say hallelujah and give God glory. Other times, a prayer is filled with thanks. We say thank you to our God and humbly accept his benevolence. It is necessary too, as sinners, to use prayer as a way to confess our sins. We can also ask for things or favor.
All types of prayer.
A final type of prayer is meditative. For me, this is the hardest type of prayer to participate in. In meditative prayer, you sit and rest in the glory of God's presence. You are not speaking.
I've tried. Sometimes I make it 5 whole minutes before I realize I am mentally making a grocery list or analyzing the color of wall paint in the living room. I try to be better each time, and I figure each minute spent praying is a good minute. As I've done a little research, I'm finding out that this is very normal.
Today's challenge: give meditative prayer a try today, but first go here or here to get some better instructions than I can give you on how to do it.
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I agree that meditative prayer is the hardest kind! It's not specific most of the time, it requires listening as much as "speaking," and we're all a little attention deficit, let's be honest. But wouldn't it be wonderful if we all started by simply being aware of God's presence each day with even a few minutes of asking God to be present in all that we do, and then watching to see where it happens. How are our decisions, our conversations changed when we "meditate" on what God wants us to do? It's a cliche I know, but WWJD?
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