Assistance with prayer

[joshnov17]

Right now I’m just getting into the habit of praying and thanking God for all the blessings He has bestowed in my life as well as praying for others. The thing is that I find it difficult to concentrate and pray about one thing. To me, when I pray, I feel lost and don’t know what to exactly pray for. It’s like a whole list of prayers jumbling around in my head and it’s more like chaos than anything. When this happens I don’t feel like I’ve successfully prayed and didn’t concentrate on communicating with our Lord Jesus Christ.

Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much and God Bless!!!

 

[Trishie]

You can share ordinary parts of your day with the Lord, if you wish, not only the time set apart for prayer. Jesus did many of the things we do, like eat meals, like walking somewhere. We can share those things with Him too, especially when we are otherwise alone.

Even if your mind is a jumble of prayers, God knows you and God understands.
What we ‘feel’ isn’t always relevant.
We can be close to God even when we don’t feel like we are. He is still with us.

If you want to have order in your prayer intentions, perhaps one prayer time you can decide to pray for family, another time for friends, and so on.
Would that help?

You could even write yourself a prayer that suits your needs of how to pray to the Lord, to praise and thank God, and then to add your other intentions in the prayer.
Would that make it easier?

God bless you too!

 

[Neil_Anthony]

Right now I’m just getting into the habit of praying and thanking God for all the blessings He has bestowed in my life as well as praying for others. The thing is that I find it difficult to concentrate and pray about one thing. To me, when I pray, I feel lost and don’t know what to exactly pray for. It’s like a whole list of prayers jumbling around in my head and it’s more like chaos than anything. When this happens I don’t feel like I’ve successfully prayed and didn’t concentrate on communicating with our Lord Jesus Christ.

Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much and God Bless!!!

If you want to focus more on one thing at a time you could find a book with spiritual readings for each day, and pray about the subject in the readings. Or you could even just pick a bible verse and read it and pray about the content of that verse.

 

[sarahq]

Why don’t you try memorizing some prayers, like the Hail Mary?

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amonst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Then what I like to do is just list all the people I know who are suffering, then list all the people who have hurt me, then list friends and family-- all people who I want to pray for.

That’s at night. Whenever I am in front of an altar or a statue of Mary, I usually just pray simply for God to help me to discern His will, and to teach me to hate sin the way He hates sin.

I don’t think prayer needs to be perfect… God knows your heart already! The important thing is that you try, and try to love God in everything that you do say or think.

God bless!

 

[DexUK]

Don’t worry about not being able to form prayers properly. As it says in Romans 8:26, when we don’t know how to pray with words, the Holy Spirit himself will intercede for us in our weakness with ‘groanings’ that words can’t express.

In other words, the Holy Spirit knows what’s in your heart, even if it’s all a big jumble for you, and He comes and gives your prayers and what you yearn for a helping hand.