How to Pray For you: Simple Step-by-Step Guide to reach God.

 

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Introduction: You Don’t Have to Have It All Figured out to Pray. 

A ton of us desire to pray but we do not know where to begin. Perhaps you have been brought up in a church where prayer seems smooth and stuffy and therefore you have always felt that you are messing it all up. Perhaps, you have never even prayed and the entire concept is a bit strange. Or once you tried it, and then just gave up because it seemed that you were only speaking to yourself. 

This is what the Bible actually says: prayer is not the act. It isn’t a set formula. It does not belong to the individuals who have several years of the Christian life or who are familiar with all the right words. Prayer is nothing but a face-to-face talk to a God who is interested in listening to you. 

This is the guide, which helps all people who may wish to understand how to pray as a Christian yet do not know how to do it. It is reasonable, easy and supported by biblical teachings. You will have an objective plan of how to begin your own prayer life, one step at a time, when you are finished. 

What Is Prayer? Learning how to pray as a Christian Newbie. 

Why Do Christians Pray? 

Prayer, at the simplest definition, is simply speaking to God. It is the way you talk to him, how you listen to him and establish a relationship with him over a period of time. Prayer in the Bible is not a checklist you have on your to-do list, but it is a living breathing relationship connecting you with your Creator. 

The reason why Christians pray is that they believe God is real, personal and truly is a good listener. By telling believers to pray with no ceasing, Paul does not mean that God needs constant updates, but he simply means that when you pray, then you are made to be oriented towards God all day long. It is a position of reliance and confiding. 

Jesus himself was in constant prayer. He prayed before making important choices, in the garden of Gethsemane, upon the time when he was in pains, on behalf of his disciples, and even on behalf of those who crucified him. When the Son of God had made prayer a necessity, that implies something grave as regards the manner in which we ought to approach it as well. 

Is God Nowadays Listening to My Complaints? What the Bible Says 

This is among the initial inquiries that most novice Christians have and it is a reasonable one. The Bible always says yes. Psalm 34 states that God is close to the heart ached and responds to the cry of his people. 1, John states that when we request something of his will, he hears us. According to James, an earnest prayer by a right person has power. 

However there is not only hearing involved. God isn’t a vending machine. He’s a father. And a good dad, just like any other dad, does not give everything out of goodness. He listens, attends and answers according to his wisdom and affection, rather than to our direct needs. 

Knowing this creates plausible anticipations about a new prayer life. You may not necessarily feel that your prayers are reaching. You may not necessarily find immediate solutions. The Bible puts it so plainly, though; God listens, and he acts at his own ideal time and in ways that ultimately will do you good. 

Best way to pray: A Step-by-Step guide to praying. 

Step 1: Find a Place and a Time of Quietness. 

Jesus gave feasible prayer instructions that have remained valid. He instructed his disciples to enter their room and shut their door and pray in secret. It was not that prayer is wrong in public that it requires concentration. Any distraction is a major antagonist of a new prayer routine. 

Choose a time and location that will practical work in your favor. Some people prefer the early morning due to the freshness of mind and the day has not yet distracted them in a million ways. You are not a morning person, then get up naturally. Praying is better at a time when you are able to present yourself to do it. Sameness is better than ideal conditions. 

Seven or ten minutes is sufficient even the first time. You are making a habit and relationship. Both take time. Big things come in small packages. 

Step 2 – Start By Giving God Acknowledgment

Among the most fascinating facts about the Lord prayer taught by Jesus to be an example, is that it begins with worship rather than prayers. Father of heaven, your name be holy. The entire content of that first line is the acknowledgment of the nature of who God is: the Father, holy, present, and absolutely deserving. 

When you kick start your time in prayer by just having a moment of prayer, it gets your heart back in gears. It shifts the emphasis of your issues and needs out into the greatness and goodness of God. You don’t need fancy words. You can just say something, God, you are good. You’re present. You are all in charge and I believe you. Worship and that is a great way to begin. 

Worship and gratitude before getting further, also reminds you of something that was very important: you are in the presence of somebody much greater than the self. Such awareness will not allow prayer to be a reading of a personal shopping list and transform it into a real experience. 

Step 3 - Be Honest: Own up What Is in Your Heart. 

Confession after worship is a way that many people will find helpful not in an official religion sense but simply being truthful with God and admitting where they have fallen short or been selfish or ultimately, pulled away. 12John encourages us with the words that will raise us, the belief that God forgives those who confess their sins that they are trustworthy and that will justify them and cleanse them.

Confession is not the act of beating oneself, but rather telling the truth. God is already aware of what you did and what you thought. It is a prayer to get it off a check in with Him, clear the mind and have forgiveness before proceeding. 

This is where in fact the prayer begins to take shape and form and is very real to a lot of newbies. It is so liberating to confess to God that I has made a mistake this week. I know it. I am sorry, and then I heard that sweet words of forgiveness you are forgiven. 

Step 4 -Thankgiving Before You Take in Demand. 

Christians take gratitude seriously, and praying is their natural place. According to Paul, in Philippians, the believers are instructed to present their requests to God in a thankful heart, no matter the circumstances. Thanks Giving is not an addition, it is part of the prayer process that Christians are meant to pray. 

You have an opportunity to thank God, look and write a list of what you have before you hand your requests to God. It does not necessarily need to be large and gaudy. Simply, a roof above your head, that you awoke up in the morning, a friend who called at the right moment, there is something on your plate, or you are healthy enough to hold it together. 

It is gratitude that alters this attitude like nothing does. When you begin to look at your life in terms of what you have rather than what you can not have, it will be different towards God about how you present yourself in terms of needs. You are a grateful boy, not a high-and-mighty client. 

Step 5 -Take Your Requests to God Frankly. 

it is all right now, you can make your wishes in the world--nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to worry about. Jesus said to his men, “Ask, and it shall be granted unto you, seek and thou shalt find, knock and the door shall be opened. Whenever you pray, God does not get irritated, but rather, he wants to know what you are thinking. 

And pray And pray of thee, of thy wants, of thy burdens, of thy fears,of thy hopes. Pray even to the people who surround you: parents, friends, classmates, even like that pain-inflicting person. We have got to pray to our enemies as Jesus literally tells us. Likely not simple, but one of the strongest things a prayer can do to the heart. 

Being specific is key. Indiscriminate prayers give indiscriminate results. When you are detailed you will see the answers more clearly and in the long run answers to prayers do become a real foundation to your faith. 

Step 6-- Learn to Hear as Well as to speak. 

It is a form of dialogue at prayer and you need to listen at conversation. Newbies would bypass this stage since it is embarrassing standing in silence. But discovering how to be quiet and silent in the presence of God is a huge thing in the Christian life. 

God does not tend to voice content using huge booming tones. He tends to bring calm that calms down your jittery mind, a line that is so easy to sing to you, a slight push towards modifying something, or the counsel of a sagacious friend that just makes sense.  Once you are done with a prayer, do not jump at another one but sit there a few minutes in silence.

 

What to Do When Prayer to God is so Hard or Dry. 

Why Does a Prayer feels Awkward at First?

just about every Christian goes through some periods in which the process of praying seems dead, a sham or relentless. It’s normal. It does not imply that God has ceased to listen, and or that you are doing something wrong. It only most often signals a dry season, which is a component of every spiritual journey. 

When praying is challenging the best thing you can do is continue to turn up. Take all your sincere feelings to God--make him know praying is a difficulty, make him know you know not whether he is hearing you. It is that crude sincerity which in itself is a form of prayer, and it frequently succeeds in opening what smooth religious speech could not. 

Another potent weapon in times when you should have nothing to say is the verses of psalms. They are the gamut of emotions--great rapturous praises and great hopelessness--they provide you with language prepared in advance which you may need at times when you are quite unable to compose your own. Verse by verse Slowing down and reading a Psalm can make Scripture lead your prayer, when you are at a loss. 

Various Ways to Pray: What Works Best to You.

Am I as a Christian able to pray in other different ways? The Thesis in the bible, the way I finished my bachelors degree is full of prayer styles and has no single textbook posture, method, vibe which is the correct one. Certainly, others raise their voices. Others whisper. Some kneel. Others stroll around. There are those who jot their prayers in a journal. Others belt it out in song. It is all true heartbeat towards God doing the same thing.

Praying with classmates of faith and praying along with them is a larger aspect of the doctrinal image. Jesus swore that as long as two or three flock together under his name that he is with them. It has this incredible energy of the session of prayer with peers that cannot be achieved consistently with the individual session. Hop on board, as there is a prayer group or a little group of people in a campus church.

Experiment with a number of methods and which ones bring you closer to divine. It is not aimed at finding the most advanced approach. The goal is real connection. The right method that works with you is whatever will bring you into the open heart of God.

Summing It Up: Prayer Is a Process, Not a Play.

It is a process that people learn throughout life and not a one-day practice. All the great characters in the Bible who were great in prayer had spurts of uncertainty, silence and struggle. What they were made into icons of prayer was not perfection, but the consistent going back.

God isn’t grading your performance. He is not waiting until he finds the right words or may have to write a marathon. He looks at the heart. A heart sincerely making its turn to him, even in the fumbling, brief, and five-minute prayer at the start of campus classes, is welcome pure joy.

Start today. Not tomorrow, not when it seems to you it is more like it is ready or spiritual. Today is the moment. Go to some secluded place and sigh and all you say is, God, I am here. I am not always sure what to say I want to get to know you. That’s enough. That’s prayer. Out of that truthful beginning something lovely may spring.

The God that contrasted the universe is listening to your voice. Your outreach has been awaited by him. He will see you where you stand.

 

                                                                                                          Written by Heritier Cyuzuzo