How do you pray to God?

Question

What do you say to Him in your prayer?
thanks

Answer 1

you talk to Him like he;s your friend. Letting Him know what;s on your heart and on't be all holy about it. Be real to Him nd He's going to be real to you.

Answer 2

Prayer is communicating with God. What is on your mind and in your heart is what you tell him. I begin with thanking God for who he is--what he has done--for what he will do--for the privilege of prayer. I do not believe that prayer should become a wish list. I do believe that prayer helps and the act of prayer is a submission to God's authority. If you pray--you understand. If you do not pray--you cannot judge.

Answer 3

In Dusty's response,i.e. the first part of the Lord's Prayer(actually the prayer of the disciples)-it says OUR FATHER- and that means every person ever born, past, present, and future-regardless of race,creed or color as long as we accept the gift of His son's sacrifice on the cross for the remission of our sons so we are again in relationship with the Father.

Some one else answered-talk to Him as a friend. I tell Him when I am angry with Him or upset because He reads our hearts and knows our every thought so don't try and fake Him out with high-sounding words and stilted language which makes for very tiresome praying. The more we know Him, through His word, the more we come to love Him-and remember, He is a just God but also He IS Love.

Answer 4

I spend a few minutes praising God, reading Psalms of Thanksgiving from the Old Testament.
I then ask for some sort of grace that I think I need. Like the grace to love your neighbors just like Christ taught.
I then do some reading from the Bible, like the Gospel of Luke, but anything really works.
I also may pray Spiritual Reading from Saints, since they lived in near perfect holiness on earth, and they serve as examples for us to live by.
I may also pray the Rosary during my Holy Hour.
Find a good spiritual director to help you how to pray. And be perserverent. God bless.

Answer 5

what you do is read the bible to find out how to pray. for starters you can look up Mathew chapter 6 and start with verse 9. this doesn't mean you should repeat this prayer but its just showing what is proper to pray for. I would also suggest you read that whole beginning chapter because it does talk about how to pray even further.Talk to god as you would a friend or father.

Answer 6

Prayer is a means by which we draw nearer to God.

God hears all the prayers of the righteous. But consider the following:

A Christian hunter is hunting bears in the woods. While walking up a hill he grabs a branch for leverage and it breaks sending the hunter tumbling down the hill, gun flying off elsewhere. When the hunter dusts himself off he sees a huge bear charging him. The hunter begins running, but trips and falls, landing on his knees. Seizing the opportunity, and being a good Christian, the hunter begins to pray, "Lord, make this bear a Christian."

The woods are quiet, the hunter turns and, Hallelujah! He sees the bear on his knees, paws together, praying! Listening, he hears the bear praying, "Father, bless this food to my body."

The key point here is that God answers prayers of the righteous, but the answer you get may not be the answer you want, BUT it will always be the right answer.

I speak to God in the same manner as I write these words to you now. That is, I have a plain conversation with Him each day, usually out under the stars late at night as my family sleeps. My prayers are conversations that follow a pattern. I start every prayer with the following: "Most merciful God, not my will, but yours be done." I repeat that phrase often during my prayers. Sometimes I will do so for tens of times just to quiet my mind and make it open to hearing from my Creator.

Use the following pattern in all your prayers and you will see them answered: Adoration, Contrition, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. See the links below for more information. (acronym: ACTS)

http://www.prayerguide.org.uk/actsmodel.htm

http://www.powertopray.com/howto/ACTS.html

Answer 7

On the Internet, it's better than going to church. Did you not know that God is now on the net to listen to your text prayers ?

Answer 8

Many times I pray the second line you typed:

"thanks"

Even when it doesn't look like all rosy.

You pray to God what is in your heart. Jesus warned againt repititious, meaniless prayers.

I realized a long time ago, why not pray what is in your heart and be truthful toward God, even when I don't understand or have weak faith, because God know what is in my heart anyways.

Answer 9

What a great question!

The Lord Himself gave us the outline for praying properly. It is called the Lord's Prayer, which was never intended as a substitute for your prayers, but an example to emulate. It is found in Matthew 6:9-13, and Luke 11:2-4.

"Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name." Notice how the beginning of the prayer praises God and honors Him. In your own prayers, you will want to do the same in your own words.

"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." Next, we ask that God's will be done. We ask that it be done on earth as it is in Heaven. In Heaven, no one disputes with God. There is no debate, no negotiating. This should be our heartfelt desire as well.

"Give us this day our daily bread." Now we ask for God's gracious provision. We ask Him to supply us. This is where you will want to express the desires of your heart.

"And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." This part makes so many uncomfortable. That is because this part is conditional. We ask for our sins to be forgiven as (or, in the same way) we have forgiven others.

"And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil" This is where we ask for divine guidance and protection from our flesh and the powers of the evil one.

"For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." We finish our prayer by glorifying God once again--a fitting end to any prayer.

Answer 10

prayer means to talk to God. the same way you would talk to your best friend do that often as you can

Answer 11

I ask Goddess and God to help me get through each day in a sane, healthy way.

Then I say the Serenity Prayer. Then I read my daily passages from "Pagan Every Day" and "365 Tao."