All tagged secret prayer

I’ll Have What He is Having!

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, What to Pray

When should we pray? Do we even know what to pray for? These sound like easy questions to answer and indeed one of them is... do you know which one? If I were to ask you to kneel with me right now, how would you begin? Would you begin to pray as you have always prayed before, or would you pray about something that was occurring in your life right now? Would you follow the same regiment or order of prayer that you always have, or let go of the old and familiar by beginning to pray as if God was a newfound friend or with an intensity and expectation that you hadn’t prayed with for a long time?

Holiness in Our Secret Places

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Secret Places and Prayers

God hears our secret prayers, he answers us in the quiet of the moment when our souls are bared to Him alone. When we pray in solitude our faith rises in purity with no need for guarded oration or flowery speech... We speak to God more freely than we would with our closest friends; all pretenses having been dropped. Although we pray the Lord's Prayer most often in public settings, it is interesting that the verses in Matthew 6 which lead up to Jesus teaching us this prayer tell us quite a different story. Listen as He is instructs His disciples to go into a private place and close the door....