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No sir, when someone comes to you and asks you to pray for them, it is as a brother or sister in Christ, and both the one asking and the one being asked are lifting up any needs to God, together, through Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the living God, the God of the living. Both are coming together in agreement to lift up the burden to God. We are admonished to pray for one another "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." ~Matthew 18:20
We are being children of the Most High and we are both directing our focus and attention to the ONE Who is God, and in essence, "worshiping" God Almighty in unison. We are doing as Jesus said to do when His disciples asked Him how to pray, and He demonstrated, as it is written.
This fits right into our admonishment to "pray without ceasing". Praying means "conversation" with God. It means "communicating" with Him. When the Bible describes the men who "walked with God", the "walking with God" means that their "conversation" with God never ceased. That is what it means to "walk" with God.....to have continual conversation with Him.
God clarifies here:
"He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" ~Micah 6:8
This is what it means to "know" God. One on one, heart to heart. Loving God with all that is in us, with all of our heart, mind, soul, and strength. It's a "hunger", a "thirst" for His presence. "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." ~Psalm 42:1
Prayer
“Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, it's pleasures, and it's pains, to a dear friend.
Tell him your troubles, that he may comfort you; tell him your joys, that he may sober them; tell him your longings, that he may purify them; tell him your dislikes, that he may help you coquer them; talk to him of your temptations, that he may shield you from them; show him the wounds of your heart, that he may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others.
If you thus pour out your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intimacy with God.” ~Francois Fenelon
Thank you kindly.
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