PROBABLY ALL OF US ARE CURSED WITH THIS TENSION IN PUBLIC OR CORPORATE PRAYER, BUT I FIND IT EVEN PLAGUES ME IN MY PRIVATE PRAYING - NOT ALWAYS, BUT SOMETIMES.
THE FREE SPIRIT IN ME WANTS TO THROW OF ALL FORMS IN PRAYER - ALWAYS - SO I DECIDED TO DO A SURVEY OF BIBLE PRAYERS, SO THAT I COULD TAKE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND. WHAT A SHOCK!! I FOUND THAT THEY HAD FORM, BUT IT WASN'T THE FORM I FELT WAS RESTRICTING MY PRAYING. THEIR FORM WAS DOMINATED BY A GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS, WHILE MINE WERE PREDICTABLY NEED-CENTERED.
I FEEL ADRIFT! HOW DISGUSTED THE LORD MUST BE WITH SUCH PRAYING AS I'VE BEEN USED TO DOING.
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My prayers have shifted since noting in Romans 1 that man's mind became darkened when he failed to appreciate and acknowledge God in Creation and stopped giving thanks. I have been seeking to make it a point to do that at all times and in all ways. It has been a sweet dialogue to do that with the Lord...just to appreciate Him.
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