Is there a time in your life that you are called in front of a gathering or a crowd to lead a prayer? Will you pray? … I’ve always thought why a lot of people are afraid to pray impromptu prayers in front of a group of people, and that includes me also just so you know. Luckily, I read a paper answering exactly what I am wondering about. The paper is entitled Will You Pray? by Florence May Mei Jee. After reading Will You Pray? I agreed and pondered with the points Mei Jee carried out, on what she does and believes in. We can make a lot of reasons on why we cannot pray in public, maybe we are ashamed to do so, but there are also a lot of reasons on why we should not be. I would like to carry out three points or reasons on how important prayer
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Mei Jee said that there are two reasons people are prompted to pray, regardless of what religion they are in. First is at the point of death, and the second is at wit’s end. According to Jors et al with their research entitled Personal prayer in patients dealing with chronic illness: a review of the research literature, disease-centered prayer was the most common. When people are in a life-threatening situation, they would probably utter a prayer. Though it is good but we should not wait until we are dying for us to start praying. We should pray every day, anywhere and anytime. Especially for us Christians, it’s a necessity that we pray. Jesus, even though He is God in a man’s body himself, still prayed to God the father. In praying, we connect with God. In praying, we are establishing a special relationship with God. According to Dan Hayes, prayer is a weapon of spiritual warfare. Truth to the matter is, we all have battles individually and it does not only limit to what we see. Sometimes there are times in our lives that we are really tempted to do wrong, and what do we do? We pray because we want to be guided to what is right. It is a spiritual battle. In one ear you are whispered to do good and the other ear the other way around. It takes prayer, to communicate to God, to be
Mei Jee said that there are two reasons people are prompted to pray, regardless of what religion they are in. First is at the point of death, and the second is at wit’s end. According to Jors et al with their research entitled Personal prayer in patients dealing with chronic illness: a review of the research literature, disease-centered prayer was the most common. When people are in a life-threatening situation, they would probably utter a prayer. Though it is good but we should not wait until we are dying for us to start praying. We should pray every day, anywhere and anytime. Especially for us Christians, it’s a necessity that we pray. Jesus, even though He is God in a man’s body himself, still prayed to God the father. In praying, we connect with God. In praying, we are establishing a special relationship with God. According to Dan Hayes, prayer is a weapon of spiritual warfare. Truth to the matter is, we all have battles individually and it does not only limit to what we see. Sometimes there are times in our lives that we are really tempted to do wrong, and what do we do? We pray because we want to be guided to what is right. It is a spiritual battle. In one ear you are whispered to do good and the other ear the other way around. It takes prayer, to communicate to God, to be