BIBLICAL WAY OF PRAYER
Keywords:
Way Abraham the Patriarch Prayed, Vision of a Consoling God in Prayer, Prayer Leading to See God in Men, Altruistic Love: the Effect of Prayer, Prayer of Intercession, Prayer as Invocation of God's Name, True Prayer Leads to Self-Sacrifice, Prayer of Abraham's Steward, Prayer as Consultation, Prayer Makes Man Divine, Prayer of Elijah, Prayer of Praise, Prayer of Self-SurrenderAbstract
Centuries ago Paul, a great man of God, wrote thus about prayer: ..... we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words" (Rom 8:26). Yes, a man left to himself is incapable of praying properly. But if he is assisted by God's Spirit, he can look up to God and call him "Abba!", "Father!", and thus engage himself in authentic prayer.' The Bible being a sacred book inspired by the Spirit of God, offers many ways of prayer and thus teaches us how to pray. In this context, a study of these biblical ways of prayer is of great importance, and hence the scope of this article. Since the limited space of this article does not permit us to examine elaborately all the instances of prayer found in the Bible, which would indeed be too vast, in this short essay we confine ourselves to certain areas of the Bible, the analysis of which would give invaluable know- ledge about the biblical way of prayer.
References
Lucius Nereparambil : Destroy This Temple. Bangalore, 1978, pp. 14-23.
Holy Bible.
