How do we pray? (1)
Q: I am not sure how to actually pray to God or how to start the prayer. Appreciate advice.
A: Are you asking for a helpful method? Are you asking the example of the Lord's prayer in generally how we can pray?
How I pray?
To start with, sin issues need to be addressed.
Since we do not know all the sins we have committed in a day, and we know that God doesnt hear our prayers if theres sin we havent dealt with, I usually start out "Father God I come before you humbly in prayer asking for the forgiveness of my sins [and list the ones I am aware of (if I didnt deal with them in prayer at the time I caught myself sinning)], and then I communicate/pray to God using one of the below guides or from them.
We can pray and are to "pray without ceasing", as we go about our day. We wouldn't be verbally doing that or we might look crazy esp what it is we say. So we pray in our mind and God hears our prayers just as he knows our thoughts. 😊
Pray with faith (Hebrews 11:6).
Pray with clean hands and a pure heart (Psalm 24:3,4).
Pray genuine heartfelt prayers, rather than vain repetitions (Matthew 6:7).
Make sure you are praying to the God revealed in the Holy Scriptures (Exodus 20:3–6).
You can boldly come before the throne of grace (Hebrews 4:16) as a child of God.(1)
Prayer methods and topic guides
Footnotes:
(1) Save yourself some pain, #2, LivingWaters
