Posted on 08/25/2016 7:14:46 AM PDT by Salvation
That's quite an unfounded assumption.
Why'd you change the subject and make it an attack on knarf?
Like everything else in our lives, God teaches us through the Bible everything we need to know about praying to Him.
Choose your passage. (”Bible dipping” is okay here. But also so is working your way through a section or book of your choice.)
(If you want, do your research and scholarly stuff.)
1) Read a verse or two. Read it over. Moving your lips is a good idea.
2) Think about it. Imagine, question, examine. If, for instance, it was an account of the Baptism of our Lord, you might imagine him picking his way down the banks of the river. Or you might consider that here he is “reckoned among the transgressors.” Whatever.
3) Pray a little prayer as it comes to mind: “Lord, do not let me stumble as I come to your grace.” “Thank you for coming to me in my sinful life.”
4) Relax and be still ... until your mind wanders. God is speaking. Be silent.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Yes. It's a “technique.” But, well, Ps 119 is all about meditation on the word. This can be a way to do that.
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“The Pilgrim's Progress” is a wonderful book. (Time for me to read it again!) Bunyan writes very well of the trials of the Christian life, of its high and low points. And the main character, “Christian,” has companions on his way.
Who would not want companions on the way? A book on prayer can widen one’s circle of companions. Sure Jesus is the way, and as Catherine of Siena says, “All the way to heaven is heaven,” because Jesus is the way. But it's still good to have someone like Catherine to remind us of this especially when the way looks like the way to Golgotha or, on the other hand, when it is full of distracting delights.
This book is very good.
“I don’t need a book describing, explaining or teaching me how to talk to my Dad .. !”
"So you don’t need Jesus either, right?"
Democrats do that ALL the time
Getting a Bible would certainly be part of a good start.
But many of us were taught our first prayers before we could read. And the customs of our own congregation are taught to us, and they are part of prayer. I have been struck, when I have worshipped with Baptists, at the uniform posture of the ... “ushers,” I suppose you’d call them, at prayer: down on one knee, elbow on the other knee, forehead supported the hand.
There is a lot of teaching of prayer which does not directly refer to Scripture.
Thanks for the excellent suggestions.
Another good book to meditate on is “The Imitation of Christ.”
Click on my name to find it broken down into short chapters.
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Yeshua taught us all we need to know about prayer in Matthew Ch 6.
Pray only to the Father, and do so in Yeshua’s name.
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>> “Why not start with the Bible?” <<
Because the Bible tells most people that read it things they would rather not know.
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“Why’d you change the subject and make it an attack on knarf?”
No attack was made. Why did you take a perfectly could rejoinder and say it was an attack?
If you don’t know what a rejoinder is, look it up.
“Like everything else in our lives, God teaches us through the Bible everything we need to know about praying to Him.”
It’s a wonder then that so many Protestants have published books on prayer if all that is needed is the Bible. I guess they know sola scriptura isn’t true.
“Dear GOD how did you make that connection ?”
Simple. You said: “I don’t need a book describing, explaining or teaching me how to talk to my Dad .. !”
And what is it - EXACTLY - that Jesus does in Luke 11?
The Bible wasn't even mentioned...Is anyone surprised???
Use your God given brain to parse your own language !
Protestants may ... but believers don’t.
"Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to the final test.” (Luke 11:1-13)."
NEVER
We ALL need that
**Because the Bible tells most people that read it things they would rather not know.**
But is that prayer or a compilation of books?
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