It is Not easy to pray for strangers.But I do it anyway

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It is not easy to pray for strangers but I do it anyway.
This is what Christians are called to do.

is it easy is praying 4 strangers for you???

Or your family members?
 
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It’s very easy for me. How is it not easy for you? Am I missing something?
 
Easier for me to pray for all those other people, strangers and loved ones, than it is for me to pray for myself. I feel selfish asking for things for me.
I do ask for help to get through the day or get work done or bring me closer to God, I don’t feel selfish about that…but anything else, like “God please give me (some earthly thing)”, feels selfish.
 
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It’s easy for me to pray for strangers because when I was with my Catholic grandmother as a kid she’d say “Look at that man/woman/child who looks as if they are struggling.” Let’s pray for them. She’d also tell me she was praying for me and others.

I also can pray for myself as as well and I do both quite a bit.

My problem is I can’t focus long enough now it seems to pray to the rosary. I used to pray it daily for years but I know God understands I do my best.

That’s my (name removed by moderator)ut, God bless.
 
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That I do!~ Great idea. I am hoping soon to get my concentration in better shape so I can get back to the rosary. I really miss it and it brought me great peace.
 
It’s easier for me to pray for strangers, whose lives I know nothing of than for people I know and whose flaws I know of and have to let go of (maybe not real flaws but things I consider flaws). Or to pray for someone I know for sure is wrong - like for the conversion of hearts of the terrorists. I have been thinking about this for a while - does anybody pray with mercy and sincerity for the redemption and conversion of IS members? I felt like I must but I can’t. Whenever I pray and I am thinking who am I praying for just forget about this cause. Sometimes I wonder if it is not God inspiring me to be this cold on them since intentions are at the end of the prayer for me so that I go with the beginning prayers with an empty mind thinking only of what I say or think - the words of the prayer. But there is still something I feel physically like a sting in my heart (I do sometimes feel it when I pray) that I am just too proud and too mean. Anyone deserves a prayer, we are all God’s children.
So pray for me so that I stop being so mean. 😟 Sometimes I lose hope that I can ever change this in me.
 
This is kind of interesting. Because
John Paul Jackson . on the teaching
“Hearing the voice of God”
He instructed students to go to the mall and pray for people clandestinely. And write it down and compare later with other students.
 
I like praying for others and find that it’s easier to pray for those I don’t know that well. At my last job I met a lot of people and got to know some more than others. If they mentioned something they were going through or someone told me about it I’d add them to my prayers.

My prayer list is really long now and keeps getting longer. I feel a certain way if I don’t get everyone. I was thinking of starting a prayer group.
 
Base on my opinion. Yes we can pray for those strangers. I do pray every night for those people who need his help also. … Sometimes were just praying for our family only. But it’s more important if we include also those strangers who needs him as well. He listens.😊🙏
 
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