Please do not pray if you do not
feel an inner urge to do so. If prayer is not felt deeply within, through and
through, it has no value, and therefore will have no effect.
I remember calling an
acquaintance on phone and he answered saying: I am praying now and I will call
you back later! I am also sure many have seen people who say they are praying
and at the same time are able to reprimand an unruly child and switch back to
their prayers! Such attitudes just shows superficiality and spiritless prayers.
These should be avoided.
Also to be avoided is the habit
of engaging in prayers to be rattled off at certain times. This is a misuse of
God’s Name. Such formulated prayers and sometimes these are very long, are rattled
off without any inner intuitive response and therefore are an offence against
the Holiness and Greatness of God! On this I will like to refer to Matthew 6 v
7-8: where it is written: “And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for
they think that by their many words they will be heard.… Do not be like them,
for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.…”
Let us bear it in mind that in joy or need, an ardent intuitive
perceiving without words remains far more valuable than a thousand spoken
prayers even if this intuitive perceiving lasts only a fraction of a second.
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