How can i prey

If you want to have a more effective conversation with God, read Scripture. Stop in the Gospels to pray over a verse that strikes you, asking God to work that truth into your heart.

Prayer grows dull when we turn it into a purely mental exercise. Listening to music can help us focus on God. Many people enjoy doodling, drawing, or painting while they pray. I help my ADHD-plagued brain focus on prayer by keeping a prayer journal.

Making a list of requests keeps my mind alert; I stop to pray for each petition after jotting it down. Occasionally I write out longer prayers like a letter. My best prayer times happen out on the walking trail. Praying aloud also helps me keep my mind engaged, but I save that for prayer times at home. How about trying an experiment? Start and end your day with prayer. Lift up short prayers to God as often as you can throughout your day. Pray over your schedule.

Ask God to help you with your to-do list. When you hear a troubling news report, lift the situation up to God. Say a prayer for your spouse or child as you give him or her a hug. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God.

Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer. Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Pray that the Lord your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do. Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. Therefore let everyone who is godly pray to you while you may be found.

Our whole life should be a life of prayer. We should walk in constant communion with God. There should be a constant upward looking of the soul to God. We should walk so habitually in His presence that even when we awake in the night it would be the most natural thing in the world for us to speak to Him in thanksgiving or in petition. Pray continually. Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kind of prayers and requests.

With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation. No prayer has to be polished and perfect to be effective, or even have a particular beginning or end.

Ways to pray. Some people like to light a candle as a focus for prayer. Some people use beads a rosary or prayer beads in different faith traditions to help them concentrate on praying.

There are set prayers for the rosary but you can use the beads as an aid to whatever you want to think or say. Hold each bead in turn as you pray until you have gone round the circle. Sometimes people hold a small cross or pebble to help them focus and shut out distractions. Some people have other creative ways to pray, such as writing down or drawing what they want to pray, and then disposing of the paper after praying.

Some people draw a circle in stages as they work through what they want to pray about and join the circle to complete the process. Other people pick up and place objects as a focus for prayers. You can also sing, dance or chant prayers or use singing or chanting to create a prayerful state. If you are not used to praying or finding it difficult, you might find it helpful to start while you are doing something else that is a regular activity.

For example, being at home now you might be more conscious of regular activities, maybe at more fixed times than usually. Or you can focus in the pauses that happen when the post arrives or while in a queue waiting to enter the supermarket.

Those pauses might let you bring to mind the needs of others like shop workers or the post delivery person and praying like this can help you feel more hopeful and thankful. Counting your blessings in those pauses can help too. You might like to find things in your home that have particular memories or associations with people, reflecting and being thankful or angry about those memories.

If you go out for your exercise, the walk can begin to become a walk with God, the rhythm of walking, jogging or cycling can fit in with a short prayerful sentence of a few words. Types of prayer Why do you want to pray? Here are some of the reasons people feel they need to pray: Asking for help. Asking for help for others. Asking for forgiveness. Being thankful and glad. Feeling awe and wonder.

Does God answer prayer?