Living Prayer; a call to the Gospel

[blessedstar]

Dear IndyAnn

Thank you for this very beautiful post.

The song is beautiful, I’ve never heard it before or heard of this singer with a beautiful voice and have saved it to my favourites.

‘Take my life and let me be a Living Prayer to Thee’, very simple, but it is very profound.

Thank you and I too believe we should all be Living Prayer.

Living prayer is not a spirituality, it is each person in their spirituality lived in their life in the faith and the whole person and everything of them and in their lives being a Living Prayer in Jesus. Jesus is the Living Prayer and we are gathered in Him as all things must be and in Living Prayer.

One of the inspirations for Living Prayer came to me from watching nature. There are other inspirations that developed this Living Prayer in my life, but nature was one of them. I knew that all creatures and even the earth praise and thank the Lord just by their state as being as a bird, a cat, or a deer, or tiger or whatever and I saw everything they did to praise the Lord as they cannot praise the Lord any other way, but we hum,ans who have a spiritual soul can make every action, word and thought a Living Prayer by our spiritual nature in Christ Jesus.

Indeed doesn’t the animal lay on the table for food for me as a sacrifice so that I may live and don’t I decide as a steward this fate for the animal. Do I not raise all of the earth to God in my Living Prayer by God’s grace by my stwerdship and prayer.

I’m running out of time, but I’ll come back later and write more on this inspiration.

In the Living Prayer of my life

 

[St_Gabriel]

It’s hard not to see how the Holy Spirit has been Living the Prayer of your Life along with you when I read your posts. It’s wonderful!

Thank you.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

I believe each man, woman and child is called to be a Living Prayer.

The ‘Our Father’ tells us in short, how to be a Living Prayer, though the entire Sacred Scripture is Living Word and Living Prayer.

When asked how to pray Jesus gave us the Lord’s Prayer which is good to recite as a formal prayer but I believe He indicates what He means by the Lord’s Prayer when He said ‘Pray unceasingly’ and said not to use long speeches and go on and on with many words. I believe the Lord’s prayer ‘The Our Father’ deals with all of our lives and that all of our lives should be prayer.

We must progress spiritually from vocal prayer closer to union with God, this does not mean we abandon vocal prayer but we do not cling to it as though this is the summit of prayer because it is not, our life transformed is the summit of prayer and prayer becomes life and the summit of prayer and of life is Jesus.

Jesus tells us to put God first, to think of God the Father not far away but intimately close to us, ‘Our Father who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name, thy Kindgom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven’ This is the foremost of the Living Prayer of our life, to love God and to have Him at the forefront of everyday we live. We rise in the morning and hand the day to God and all that happens and all that we do. This joins our will with God’s and our day and all of it’s work and happenings will be led by Jesus to build up the Kingdom of God by the power of the Holy Spirit, though we may not actually see the fruits of this.

Continued

In all prayer, we are opening ourselves up to God, not to the words of the prayer itself. Eventually our prayer becomes silent and internal. We are drawn to be in His presence, who dwells within us.

Jim

 

[blessedstar]

In Living Prayer, it is the whole life of which silent prayer is a part of the Living Prayer but I do not want it to be seen as the whole as it is not and therefore I don’t want to discuss silent prayer at length in this thread. It may derail the topic. I certainly do not wish to discuss prayer methods in this thread. If people wish to discuss prayer methods may the be so kind as to start a thread on that topic.Thank you.

In the Living Prayer of my life

 

[blessedstar]

What better way do we have to say thank you to God than to unite our lfe upon the Altar with Jesus in His perfect sacrifice that we too may make our life also a sacrifice with Jesus in the Living Prayer of our lives.

In the Living Prayer of my life

 

[BarbaraTherese]

What better way do we have to say thank you to God than to unite our lfe upon the Altar with Jesus in His perfect sacrifice that we too may make our life also a sacrifice with Jesus in the Living Prayer of our lives.

In the Living Prayer of my life

…Amen…

I thought there was a quote somewhere and went off and found it…
St. Paul to the Romans - Chapter 12

1 I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God.