The Primary Purpose of Prayer is...
 

What is the primary purpose of praying?

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Relationship.

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To many people the sum total of their communion with their God is the Sunday night glossolalia. But they know the oneness doctrine, so they know HIM.

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Great point! Does it matter more that we are just "praying", than what we are saying when we pray?

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the primary purpose imo is to petition God, secondarily to commune with him.

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I think it takes two to tango, have you heard from him lately?

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(What we are saying is what matters. I don't make more petitions for myself than I do for others. )

Prayer isn't as difficult as we think it is. Talk to him. HE is wanting and waiting for us to speak to HIM. You don't have to get into pentecostal glory mode, hollering at the top of your lungs.

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Yes.

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I thought it was to communicate with Him.

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Indeed. I did not mean to exclude to obvious. But what are we saying when we communicate?

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To communicate with him and to be transformed into his likeness. When we are in Him then we will be able to ask what we will and he will do it. AS long as our abiding is in Him.

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our father who art in heaven
hallowed be thy name

(first off to worship God)

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

(Next to pray fo God's will to be known and done. Some of his will we know already, ie, he is not willing that any are lost)

Give us this day our daily bread

(we are to ask him for our needs)

And forgive us our debts and we forgive our debtors

(we are to repent, and forgive in prayer)

lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil

(self explanatory)

so, that is purpose of prayer

btw, I didn't vote on the poll, did see my choice there

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Prayer is intimate fellowship with Jesus Christ. Talking to him about whatever we would talk to our best friend about. It is asking for things. It is worshipping him. It is where we can be very passionate about our love for him.

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:thumbsup

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A good portion of my prayer time is praise and worship.

I think it matters to ask when we have a need or want, especially since that is what we are told to do.

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Transformation and abiding... Quite subjective is it not?

We know because his word states it.

Many feel they are indeed abiding and ask without results they ask for. So does it mean they are not abiding in him? I think not. The fact is, our feelings are notoriously unreliable. More often than not we are wrong, or feel differently than fellow Spirit filled believers.

It's time we not only tell the Lord how we feel and express our desires to him, but also end each prayer with, "nevertheless not my will, but thine be done". It is only then that we can truly rest and abide in Him.

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virtualy every day :happydance

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It is many things; but I believe it is primarily to become one with him in everything. it is the process of emptying out of ourselves and what we were to become like him in everything...God uses our situations and circumstances to bring us into a place through prayer where we are so identified with him in every thought..consumed by him..


A recent communication from the throne told me, "in everything give thanks for this is the will of God concerning you.."

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To conform our will to the will of God, conform our mind to the mind of Christ, to confess sin, and to lay our needs and desires before Him.

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To bring our minds into accord with HIM, to understand where HE is working around us, and to bring us to alignment with HIM. When do we get our prayers answered? When we are asking for HIS will to be done, other wise were are asking "amiss". Not just saying "Thy will be done", rather coming to understand HIS will and actually praying those words.

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What Aquila said!!

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Mine's not there, either. :lol

I bet every poll ever posted on AFF has this problem. ;)

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(Except the ones that have an "Other" choice. :thumbsup)

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communion, fellowship with him.... also to ask and permit him to be involved in every aspect of my life, my kids, family and friends. I personally don't believe he gets involved until we ask.. make the petition known.

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I like this!

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It is for His Kingdom to come and His will to be done, and all the elements in our lives that must align into that being dealt with as the Lord's prayer displays. This is why the Lord's prayer begins and ends with KINGDOM references, sandwiching the rest.

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Thanks, Hoovie, I have come to embrace that approach to prayer, and it has given it much more meaning and effect in my life.

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Lord, may your kingdom come, may my life today join you in that coming in my world, and may you be glorified, that many will see your greatest and praise you today.

Amen, Brother.