I have a very hard time praying. My prayers are weak. I need strength to open my heart to God. I need help p(name removed by moderator)ointing things that I need to pray about. I want to have a reputation of being a prayer warrior. I want people to come to me and let me pray for them. But yet its hard for me to pick up a rosary and pray it other than our family’s Sunday rosary. Please give me tips on praying or any useful information.
I can only tell you what I think about good prayer. And in a very few words, this is what I have found out in a nut shell, “just do it”.
From what the saints seem to tell us, it isn’t that we feel good when we pray, but rather, to be effective at prayer, we must do it and be faithful to it no matter how we feel at the time. Feelings come and go at a moments notice. If we depend on our feelings, we won’t get much done, and that is a “for sure”. We cannot afford to follow our feelings, but we must do what we know we must do, and let the feelings do what they want.
The fact is, if we go opposite our feelings, we are probably more effective in our prayer since we are doing that which takes more effort on our part. God knows this, that you are doing more work at your prayer and doing what you know is right, rather than giving into your feelings.
Life is not easy, and neither is anything worthwile we do in life easy. So can we expect prayer to be any different? If it is worthwile, we are going to have to work for it and keep at it. And if we find it particlarly difficult, then just tell our dear Lord that you are glad that it is more difficult for that means you can please him more by going against how you feel and prove to him your fidelity.
Just a suggestion.
