What is prayer? The simplest definition is that its communication with God.

I don’t know about you, but I love talking to friends. There’s always something refreshing and engaging in having a conversation with our dear friends. And generally if we have good friends, we make an effort to talk to them regularly. Well we should at any rate!

We have a great friend in Our Lord and Our friend and He wants to communicate with us too.

How do we communicate (pray) with our Lord? On our knees? Standing? Pray loud? Pray quietly or Internally? Pray by prepared scripts or spontaneously?

While I don’t think there’s any one right way to pray, I think sometimes it is good to be on our knees, to display our reverence to the Holy God we serve.

And He has told us to come boldly to the throne of Grace, so I guess we should spontaneously bring our qualms or our praise to the very feet of God instead of waiting for gold gilt invitation (which He has already given us). Pr-prepared prayers or scripts of prayer, while effective if heart felt, can come off a bit dry and stifled in a sense of religious duty.

Imagine if we walked into our friends room and start declaring to them, “Oh Holy Deity, I have come into your presence with great piousness.” How do you think that friend would react. Probably along the lines of “what are you on about?”

Don’t get us wrong, Praising God is a great way to start prayer, but we’ve come to communicate with Him, not deliver a speech to Him. God created us individuals with individual expression.

God Bless.

OFJ