Monday 24 October 2011

20 Solid ways to PRAY- on the MOVE!!!

Prayers could be WEALTHY when it's simple and spontaneous. In fact, we can pray anywhere and everywhere and at any time. It doesn't require heavy languages in a sacred space (you all know God has a lot of languages on his hands and mind..hehe). All we need to do is see our simple moments as the perfect occasions for communicating with God, then speak from our heart.
Take a few minutes, ok, seconds to explore this list for some plain and easy ways to pray your way through an ordinary day.
1. Pray on the Move:
While driving to work, to school, or chauffeuring your kids, use familiar landmarks to remind you to thank God, ask God, seek God, and listen to God.
2. Pray Over Your Favourite Foods:
God loves the delightful things he has created; and when we enjoy them, he enjoys them with and through us. Savor it; as the Bible says, "Taste and see that the Lord is good!" wow, I try as much as possible for thanking Jehovah for the wonderful food he makes available to us, remember, some have food but cannot eat, some can eat but have no food, we have food and we can eat, gory be to thee oh Lord...AMEN!!! (now, who remembers this?). Just this simple prayer rhyme is a prayer that we know we would appreciate if we were GOD or gods!!! 
3. Pray Holding Your Dog or Cat (YOUR PET)
God loves animals even more than we do...hhmmm (I guess that's why God created them first, maybe). In fact, our relationship with them in many ways mirror our relationship with God. As we are with the creatures under our care, so God is with us. Thank him for your pet, and that you can trust God as they trust you, little wonder in some countries, they have animal protection laws!!!

4. Pray Through a Family Photo Album:
Use pictures as an opportunity to thank God for the precious people in your life. Ask for God's blessing on them to fulfill their destinies. Ask God to heal relationship rifts, and to help you heal from the grief of loved ones lost. We just can't get rid of our family, we were born into them, we did not just meet them yesterday.
5. Pray During Household Chores:
As you tend to your cleaning responsibilities, ask God to tend to his by cleaning out your heart of anything that would compromise His blessed best. I remember a bathroom song back in the days we was little, here it goes;
When we take a bath, when we take a bath,
we think about the Lord, we think about the Lord,
and He washes away our sins, and as he washes away our sins,
let us tell you more, let us tell you more,
He washed our hands so we could touch, He washed our hands so we could touch,
the world He loved so very much, the world He loved so very much
let us tell you more, let us tell you more.......
and on and on it goes for the various parts of the body..e.g He washed our eyes so we could see, He washed our eyes so we could see, let us tell you more, let us tell you more.
6. Pray While Brushing Your Teeth:
Our words create things and tear things down. Pray that your words today would honor God, and that the things you say might cooperate with what God wants to accomplish in your corner of the world. As I wash my teeth today, may Jehovah wash out the dirty talks that came forth from my mouth yesterday. AMEN!!!

7. Pray to Your Favorite Song:
God loves music: it's all over the Bible. Happy songs, sad songs, love songs, and cause songs all reflect aspects of God's heart. Sing your prayer as a celebration, an appeal, a complaint, a yearning or hope expressed to God.

8. Pray the Ancient Words of the Bible:
The scriptures are our precedent for living, and what was true thousands of years ago remains true and relevant today. When you echo ancient words you connect with the wider human experience and with our never-changing God. Pick a passage like Psalm 23 or Romans 8 and read it slowly. Your words make it a prayer – a familiar prayer – to God.
9. Pray On a Solitary Walk in Nature:
Creation is a window into God's heart. In the woods, by the sea, beside a stream, or in a garden we find aspects of God's nature reflected to us in tangible ways. As you walk, talk with God about what you see; then listen. God will respond!
10. Pray Gazing at the Stars on a Dark Night:We are small and seemingly insignificant in this vast universe. Yet praying as we look out across the galaxies gives God a chance to show us how special, powerful, and specific his love can be. On a dark night, share with God your "biggest challenges." In that context, God will grant you peace that he is big enough to care for you!
11. Pray with A Friend About a Secret You Have Carried:

Having someone to pray with is a powerful spiritual principle. God cares about relationships and honors in a special way the agreement of his children. Share your private concerns confidentially with a friend, then together take those concerns to God. In the comfort of two will come the power of three!

12. Pray While Reading the Newspaper:
God cares about the world and the pain and suffering affecting all people. Learning the news may make you want to wring your hands, but answer that instinct by leveraging the opportunity to ask for God's intervention in the specific crises at hand.

13. Pray While Exercising or Working out:Use the rhythms and cadence to prompt prayer routines and patterns. With every other step on a walk, for instance, recount the name of a friend who needs prayer, or a gift your thankful for, or a fear you need to release. Pushing your body creates a parallel for pushing your soul. You can try this one- 
I love Jesus, I love Jesus
1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4 (please tell me if this rhymes with any exercise, as for me it rhymes with HEAD-SHOULDERS-KNEES-TOES, HEAD-SHOULDERS-KNEES-TOES).
14. Pray with Silence and in Stillness:
Our days are filled with rushed activity. Finding a few moments to sit still can be a great catalyst for prayer. Try sitting still and being silent, allowing your thoughts to move toward God. The Bible says, "In quietness and trust is your strength." In quietness you express a healthy passivity, releasing activity to God, inviting his action.
15. Pray Over a Good Meal with Family or Friends:
Fasting can be a great spiritual discipline to help us focus on prayer, but feasts can help us pray as well. There's a long tradition of feasts and worship. Use either an ordinary meal or a special occasion to create a kind of edible prayer, perhaps saying, "Lord, we eat this in your honor..."
16. Pray On a Special Day:
Every day is designated with some special meaning. Check an almanac to find what today recognizes, then use that as a platform for prayer. Perhaps today is the birthday of someone you know or the anniversary of an important event. Use any of these remembrances to focus and prompt your prayer for the day.
17. Pray Through Written Words:

Whether through a journal, a hand-written letter, an email, a "Tweet" or blog post, or a card given to a friend, putting prayer into written words is a powerful, ancient – and enduring – practice. Write your prayers, then over time go back and review what you've written and consider how God has responded over time.
18. Pray with Emotion:
God can handle our feelings. The stories of great souls always include accounts of their emotional connection with God. We are passionate creatures and God welcomes our anger, sorrow, frustration, fear, and celebration. In fact, he wants it! We're to love God with all our heart. God can handle your emotions. Use them as a booster rocket for prayer. Laugh out a prayer. Weep out a prayer. Connecting with God at this level is the very best place to find emotional wholeness.
19. Pray with Simple Triggers:

"Triggers" are memory tools that help direct our minds. We can strategically help our prayer practices by placing triggers in our day to remind us to pray in the middle of our ordinary activity. A Post It on your bathroom mirror, an hourly alarm on your watch, a small stone carried in your front pocket, it can be anything. Get creative and deliberate to place these hallmarks along the regular paths you walk. God will meet you there.
20. Pray Now:
God is down to earth, here and now. He comes to meet us, where we live, to prepare us to meet him, where he lives. Communicate with him now, simply, directly, personally.



Top of the weekend people.

11 comments:

  1. If you desire to get much from this post then you have to apply these methods to your
    won webpage.

    Feel free to surf to my web page: Air Max Pas Cher

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hey there! Do you know if they make any plugins
    to help with SEO? I'm trying to get my blog to rank for some targeted keywords but I'm not seeing very good results.
    If you know of any please share. Thank you!


    Feel free to surf to my blog post Michael Kors Bags

    ReplyDelete
  3. Asking questions are really pleasant thing if you are
    not understanding anything completely, except this piece of writing provides nice
    understanding even.

    my weblog: More Help

    ReplyDelete
  4. Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though
    you relied on the video to make your point.
    You definitely know what youre talking about, why waste
    your intelligence on just posting videos to your site when
    you could be giving us something enlightening to read?


    Here is my web blog :: Jordan Femme

    ReplyDelete
  5. Do you mind if I quote a few of your posts as long as I provide credit and sources back to your site?
    My blog is in the very same area of interest as yours and my visitors would truly benefit from a
    lot of the information you provide here. Please let me know if
    this ok with you. Thanks!

    Visit my homepage Louis Vuitton Outlet1

    ReplyDelete
  6. Hi, constantly i used to check weblog posts here in the early hours in the daylight, as i like to
    gain knowledge of more and more.

    my site versicherungs-wiki.de

    ReplyDelete
  7. Hi there to all, how is all, I think every one is getting more from this web page, and your views are nice designed for new viewers.



    My blog - Air Max 1

    ReplyDelete
  8. I do believe all the concepts you've introduced in your post. They are really convincing and will definitely work. Nonetheless, the posts are very short for newbies. Could you please extend them a little from next time? Thank you for the post.

    Also visit my page: Louis Vuitton Pas Cher []

    ReplyDelete
  9. Greate post. Keep posting such kind of info on your blog.
    Im really impressed by it.
    Hey there, You have performed an excellent job. I will certainly digg it
    and for my part suggest to my friends. I am confident they
    will be benefited from this site.

    My webpage ... Soldes Air Jordan

    ReplyDelete
  10. Hi, I wish for to subscribe for this weblog to take most up-to-date updates,
    thus where can i do it please help.

    Also visit my weblog - Billige Nike Free

    ReplyDelete
  11. Yes! Finally something about sport car.

    Look at my blog post :: Air Max Pas Cher

    ReplyDelete

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...