Comments on: Pray Like You Mean It

By: Christianity without Christ | Visual Coma

Christianity without Christ | Visual Coma — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:22:54 +0000

[...] I read two posts this morning. Bush – Still the reason for the Season? and Brody – Pray like you Mean it. [...]

By: P.D. Ross

P.D. Ross — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:46:13 +0000

Great post Brody. I’m always trying to check myself on the issue. I too know what it feels like to be totallyout of control and just pray my butt off. I catch myself wondering what God thinks about the fact that I don’t pray like that every time I pray.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:27:28 +0000

Thank you and thanks to God for this particular entry because it is essential to pray like we mean it. I pray we will live this life and pray as if this very breath is our last.

By: andiramusic

andiramusic — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:21:10 +0000

A teen in my youth group recently asked in his blog what he should say to the Creator and if it was okay to ask Him for so many things at once.

I often wonder if I take God’s presence for granted. Knowing He’s there, sometimes I don’t think I ask Him enough. There have been a couple of times in my life where I was so desperate I fell on my face, eating carpet, to pray. Sometimes I’ve been so scared I just literally hold my breath and wait for God to move. And He always has.

I wonder if it all comes back to our relationship with Him. He knows our hearts, he knows our need, he knows our reasons behind our requests. I wonder if praying like we mean it requires merely focus and hope in God. Whether on our faces or silent or a quick breath of “God, help me”, I’d venture to say that God desires us to remember that HE is salvation.

So I think maybe we can learn to pray like we mean it by working on that relationship with God. Focusing on who He is and that we are indeed in need of His movement in whatever situation at hand.

By: VC-Blog » Christianity without Christ

VC-Blog » Christianity without Christ — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:42:43 +0000

[...] I read two posts this morning. Bush – Still the reason for the Season? and Brody – Pray like you Mean it. [...]

By: brandon.marler

brandon.marler — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:14:57 +0000

i’ve been at this place several times this year…not quite to the extreme of the children of Israel…but to the point of where things felt so out of control that there was nothing to do (or that I wanted to do more), but pray passionately, out of control.

it is indeed a good place to be!

By: Alymc

Alymc — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:10:56 +0000

Thanks for giving us something to think about. I probably need to heed this post.
I think of what John Piper says about prayer, and the saying he uses over and over again…. “wartime mentality”. I encourage all to go research what Piper says .. very convicting.

By: cool dad

cool dad — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:12:19 +0000

Like you said, it seems that sincere, urgent prayer only comes forth in urgent times, specifically when our own safety or status quo is under threat.

Even for big things that loved ones are enduring, I pray and I’m sincere, but the urgency is not there – probably because of selfishness. No matter how hard I pray or don’t pray, nothing of mine is really at stake.

If I loved others more than myself and held in God in the glorious esteem that I should, I think my prayer life would have the passion it needs.