Comments on: Beat it like a dead horse… http://www.ericgmorgan.com/2007/12/01/beat-it-like-a-dead-horse/ Christ, Culture, City, Church Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:29:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Eugene Banks http://www.ericgmorgan.com/2007/12/01/beat-it-like-a-dead-horse/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Eugene Banks Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:22:41 +0000 http://www.ericgmorgan.com/?p=195#comment-63 Prayer is one of those 'can't nail down' items, methinks. When I categorize prayer on the basis of what I am comfortable with, I believe I lose my concentration and purpose ... which is worship and relationship. When I choose to be distracted by the 'mode', the delivery, the vernacular, the repeating 'just' and 'Lord' or 'Father', I then find myself not actively participating in/with the one praying. For a long time, I would turn off my concentration when a prepackaged one kept reappearing ... and wondering why people got stuck in the rut of prayer. A sorta ... well ... Do it this way kinda command. "this" is how to prayer ... which is wrong. Christians don't know how to be silent. Can't take a breath, and in the midst of that breath wait for HIS prompting as to the next thing to pray through. Bottom line on the 'jibber jabber' prayers? Stuck in a world of tongue and vocal chord frolics ... If I am reminded of the Holy Spirit interseding because I don't know how to pray, then why am I upset with what is common in the Christian community? I still do get bothered by my attitude, because the jibber jabber prayers seem so surface oriented. But am getting better dealing with it. Reason? They are my bro's and sis's. Wrestle well ... Prayer is one of those ‘can’t nail down’ items, methinks. When I categorize prayer on the basis of what I am comfortable with, I believe I lose my concentration and purpose … which is worship and relationship.

When I choose to be distracted by the ‘mode’, the delivery, the vernacular, the repeating ‘just’ and ‘Lord’ or ‘Father’, I then find myself not actively participating in/with the one praying. For a long time, I would turn off my concentration when a prepackaged one kept reappearing … and wondering why people got stuck in the rut of prayer. A sorta … well … Do it this way kinda command. “this” is how to prayer … which is wrong.

Christians don’t know how to be silent. Can’t take a breath, and in the midst of that breath wait for HIS prompting as to the next thing to pray through. Bottom line on the ‘jibber jabber’ prayers? Stuck in a world of tongue and vocal chord frolics …

If I am reminded of the Holy Spirit interseding because I don’t know how to pray, then why am I upset with what is common in the Christian community? I still do get bothered by my attitude, because the jibber jabber prayers seem so surface oriented. But am getting better dealing with it. Reason? They are my bro’s and sis’s. Wrestle well …

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