Dear JYs It will be highly appreciated if those who do want to receive Prayer Requests if they can give me their Email Ids I will be glad to post the same to them as and when I do get any Prayer Request. Also if anyone does have any email ids of any group that takes Prayer Requests such as Jeevan Jal, Prayertoweronline, I will be highly obliged if you could send it across to me.
It is nice to know that some of the Members out here take time out to specially Pray for the Prayer Requests posted out here. May the Lord bless you all abundantly in this regard. A Honest confession I was once associated with different ePrayer sites and we used to receive Prayer Request for different intentions. However we noticed that in due time the volume of Prayer Requests more than doubled. Also Satan started working overtime and quite a few of us including myself from being the one Praying for others actually landed up being the one seeking Prayers. Conviction Many of us had felt this conviction that being the one fallen in Sin we had no rights to Prayer for others as we were not worthy. Some even felt that even an Our Father , Hail Mary or Glory be would not work because we had now become victims of our sins. This is an absolute lie from the Satan. We later found out that actually being down in Sin when we prayed for others we actually found hidden strength to face upto our troubles and our problems. Prayer I wouldnt like to contradict anyone but I remember when praying for others I used to receive mails from people saying whether I knew the "Format" of praying for others. I was stunned. What was even more surprising each one of those mails prescribed their own format and well their own copyrights. I didnt know that Prayers to God had to be in any particular format. If there exist one I knew only one. That it should come from the Heart and that is what we followed. I am not saying that saying daily Prayers are bad. Its just that when we restrict our **dialogue with the Lord in the boundaries of those Prayers that is when I feel that conversation with our lord is incomplete. I personally advocate that in addition to Prayers a time of simple sharing and listening is necessary with the Lord. Guilt Remember Guilt comes from Satan. So sometimes when u Prayer and if u are reminded of any sins always surrender it to the Lord knowing that he is ready to accept them and ready to forgive them through the sacrament of confession. Sometimes people are guilty because they didnt get time to Pray or they forgot to Pray. That is just a conviction from Satan telling us how forgetful we are. Instead use that same Guilt into an urgency to seek time to Pray with the Lord and ur guilt will be washed away. Praising. I think we all know how important Praise and Worship is before the Lord. The word of God does tell us that the Lord dwells in the praises of his people. Hence never forget to praise God in any situation or for any situation even when ur praying for others even if it was for just 1 or 2 minutes. The Best Prayer. Sometimes people ask which is the best Prayer to pray before the Lord. I simply believe it to be one line. Lord not mine but thy will be done. This important line is also found in the Our Father which is such an important Prayer. Anyways I do feel that after reading this those who didnt think themselve capable or worthy enough should change their mind. So do take time out and include others in your Prayers. These are my personal observations so if u do feel any contradiction do mail it across so that we may Learn :) urs in faith Jason Mumbai, India. **dialogue : Please note that I used the Word dialogue which means conversation between two people because if it was only a one sided conversation it would be called monologue. I apologise if this mail is long enough. =============================================================================== This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. For more info on the list visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet To unsubscribe from the list send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the list visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet/join In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===============================================================================
