Day 12: Student of Prayer
Reflecting and Recording
Do you have any books of prayers? If so, use them for a time in order to see what you can learn in studying and using the prayers of other as a guide for your own praying.
How do you feel about the idea of a weekly cycle in your prayers? How might this make your prayer list more manageable?
Relating
G. Earnest Thomas used the prayers of others as a means of encouraging people to overcome their fear of praying in a group. At every meeting, he would have books of prayers available.
For those not yet comfortable praying in their own words, he would ask them to select a prayer from one of the books.
When their time to pray came, they simply read the selected prayer aloud.
Thomas noted that these prayers were not only meaningful in their own right, but they also became bridges over which hesitant people could walk to begin praying in a group.
Why not follow Thomas’ example in your group for a while, not only to encourage the timid but also as an experiment to see how the prayers of others can indeed enrich and inform your praying?
Day 12
Student of prayer
1. Do you have any books of prayers question? If so, use them for a time in order to see what you can learn in studying and using the prayers of others to guide you and praying.
Are use the online prayer guide. I signed up for it a while back. It’s a website that you can go to where people turn to that are in need and ask for prayers. And you can pray for them. And they could pray for you. I’ve use this to help me in my prayers several times.
2. how do you feel about the idea of weekly cycle in your prayers? How might this make your prayer list…
One of the books I use is Powerful Prayers in the War Room in addition to The Imitation of Christ which is not a prayer book but one I use when I seek deeper contemplation.
My prayer list changes often depending on who or what circumstances need prayer.