Written Prayer???

[smiling for God]

I was wondering what everyone else though of writing prayers down. Like letters to God. Is this okay? Sometimes I wonder. Does this make me further from God cause I'm not talking to him like he is right there. So many questions... this is turning quickly into rambling. So confused!
What does everyone else think?

 

[mina]

I think it's good. God hears your heart no matter if you are speaking, or saying in your mind, or writting it down. I actually like writting prayers down because then I can go back later and read them and see how God worked in that situation. So I think there is nothing wrong with it. David wrote down his prayers.

 

[renaistre]

I think it's good. God hears your heart no matter if you are speaking, or saying in your mind, or writting it down. I actually like writting prayers down because then I can go back later and read them and see how God worked in that situation. So I think there is nothing wrong with it. David wrote down his prayers.

I couldn't say it any better. In fact, writing out my prayers is one of the things I have been trying to do more, partly for the reasons Mina gave, and also because I can sometimes organize my thoughts better when I write them out.

I think the only situation that might not be too good is if you only wrote your prayers and never "spoke" them, whether out loud or "in your heart". But even then, I'm not sure if I would say that is wrong. I'd have to think about it for a while.

-Evan

 

[fishstix]

I've tried writing prayers and it doesn't work very well for me. I think so much faster than I can write or even type that it gets frustrating. Of course, I'm one of those people who doesn't like writing in general. To each his own

 

[Lilly of the Valley]

It's okay to write or think prayers, but the Lord wants you to also talk to Him with words. Why don't you talk to Him in words (talking)?

 

[jenptcfan]

I find that when I'm keeping a prayer journal, my walk with God seems so much closer. Sometimes when I just pray without writing, I find that I jump from one prayer to another and don't spend a lot of time really deeply praying. When I write it down it really seems like it just flows out so much more smoothly and sometimes I can even seem to get a better idea of God's response to my prayers (I know it sounds strange, but true). Plus, I love having them written down to I can go back when a prayer is answered and mark it in my journal with a date answered, etc. I think writing in a prayer journal can be very powerful.

 

[smiling for God]

Sometimes when I just pray without writing, I find that I jump from one prayer to another and don't spend a lot of time really deeply praying. When I write it down it really seems like it just flows out so much more smoothly and sometimes I can even seem to get a better idea of God's response to my prayers (I know it sounds strange, but true). Plus, I love having them written down to I can go back when a prayer is answered and mark it in my journal with a date answered, etc. .

That's how I feel. I don't start day dreaming in the middle of the prayer that way.

but the Lord wants you to also talk to Him with words. Why don't you talk to Him in words?

I do talk to Him in words as well. But durning my regular devotion time I also write in the journal.
Thanks everyone. This has really helped.

 

[mina]

Writing is using words.

 

[plum]

My prayer journal is all about writing out my thoughts and concerns to God in a way that will last and in a way that solidifies what is going on inside of me. It focuses me, too. I highly recommend writing to God! Communicate with him any way you can! He is certainly not limited in his communication. He is in pillars of smoke, flames, a whisper in the night...

 

[Beauty4Ashes]

I write prayers all the time and its definately not wrong or bring you farther from GOd, it will probably bring you closer as it has in my experience For a while I'd write one every night before I prayed verbally before bed and I'd read outloud the one from the night before, like praying the psalms kinda. GOD bless you KEEP IT UP.