Prayer: How to start?

visionary said:

Our Father which are in heaven... meditating on each and every word.. slowly so that the Lord can bring more meaning to every little bit of it. ...

Ask God about every little thought that pops up in my head during prayer.. Do it like it is an ongoing conversation with Him.. and listen to what He says.. but before you begin this type of conversational pray, ask God to let it be just His voice that talks back to you. You will learn a lot about yourself, your weaknesses, self control even in thinking. because we are to pray without ceasing.. so if you take everything to God in prayer.. it makes a major difference to your life and what goes on around and in it. ..

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Pal Handy said:

Open yourself up to God.
This act of opening up to God as expressed by words from your heart to God,
is the greatest prayer a person can pray.

Giving yourself to the Lord by making yourself available to Him
and placing your trust in Him and bringing Him into your thoughts
is communing with God (prayer).

This can be done by your affirming your willingness to God by inviting Him into your life
in a greater way, through your words or thoughts expressed to Him.

Father, I need you, I need your help.
Take my life and cause me to be like your Son Jesus Christ.

The Lord's prayer is a great framework.

Opening up your thoughts to the Lord by acknowledging Him (thanking and praising Him) and
inviting Him to be with you throughout your day is good.

I find that thanking the Lord throughout the day for any good thing
that comes my way is a way of inviting God into my thought life
and causing myself to be mindful of or God conscience throughout the day as I
open up my thoughts and heart to the Lord.

You can talk to the Lord about anything, good or bad, God already knows
your every thought but when you acknowledge to God that He is welcome
in every thought, you are opening yourself up to Him as a friend and
you are coming to God in trust and in hope that He will help you to
improve and grow in Him.

God loves you completely, absolutely and unconditionally so if you open
yourself up to Him you can rest assured that God will never condemn you
but He will gently and lovingly shape your heart by His amazing love
and friendship as you hang out with Him as He lets you know that He is for you
and wants His absolute best for you.

Think of your prayers to God like your running inner dialog only
turned outward toward God and shaped by you into a talk with your
absolute best friend that you can trust with your every thought, motive,
failure, sins, dreams, desires and everthing else you would share with
your best friend and even your thought that you would reserve for yourself
in your most intimate private thoughts.

God is so awsome...

Like I said, God knows it all anyway but by you inviting Him into
the areas that most people think are somehow hidden or locked away
from God, you are learning to trust God and His faithfulness to you
as your dearest and closest friend.

Words like friend do not do justice to how close the Lord wants to be
to you, perhaps intimate lover of our souls is a closer description of where
God wants to take us in relationship with Him.

Hope this helps you.

God is worth the pursuit.

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