Different Types of Prayer

  1. Praise – “Our Father in heaven, holy is your name.”
  2. Submission – “Your kingdom come, your will be done.” (Matthew 26:39-44)
  3. Lamentation – “We pray in morning for the devastation our community has suffered from Hurricane Ivan.” (Psalm 55:1-7)
  4. Confession – “Forgive us our sins, as we also have forgiven those who sin against us.” (Psalms 130:3-4)
  5. Thanksgiving – “Thank you for my friend Bob. And thank you for the interruption that gave me a chance to cool down just when I was about to lose my temper with him today.” (John 11:41-42)
  6. Intercession – “Please help my landlady Mrs. Grundy, who is worried about her son. Please help my Uncle Joe, who is in prison for taking that money. Please help my teacher, who talks so cynically sometimes. If there is something I can do for these people, please help me see what it is.” (Second Samuel 12:16)
  7. Petition – “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray my sanity to keep. For if some peace I do not find, I'm pretty sure I'll lose my mind. I pray I find a little quiet, far from the daily family riot.” (Exodus 34:12-23)
  8. Imprecation – “Osama Bin Laden, let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!” (Psalms 109:8-12)

Bad Examples of Prayer

Dear Lord, So far today, Lord, I've done all right. I haven't gossiped, haven't lost my temper, haven't been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish, or over indulgent. I'm very thankful for that. But; in a few minutes, Lord, I'm going to get out of bed. And from then on, I'm probably going to need a lot more help. Amen. (from a Web Site)

O Lord, you know that I have nine houses in the city of London, and that I have recently purchased an estate in Essex. Please keep the two counties of Middlesex and Essex from fires and earthquakes. And, as I have also a mortgage in Hertfordshire, I beg you also to have an eye of compassion on that county, and the rest of the counties you may treat as you like. O Lord, help the banks to meet all their bills and make all debtors good men. Give prosperous voyage and safe return to the ship Mermaid because I have not insured it. And because you said "The days of the wicked are short", I trust that you will not forget your promise as I will inherit an estate on the death of that worthless young man Sir J.L.... Keep my friends from sinking, preserve me from thieves and housebreakers, and make all my servants so honest and faithful that they may always attend to my interests, and never cheat me out of my property night and day. Amen. (John Ward, member of parliament in 1727)

Comments

1 Perla Sarmiento de Adams (May 21, 2008 at 10:12 AM)

Nice website, Congratulation.? Can you please talk a little more about the Imprecation Prayer. It doesn’t sound to me as ?something good to. I will like to know your opinion. ?Thank You

2 Nathaniel Bluedorn (May 21, 2008 at 8:54 PM)

I’ve been wondering about that one too. What do you think? They did a lot of imprecation in the old testament.

3 Perla Sarmiento de Adams (May 21, 2008 at 11:43 PM)

?“They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, ??and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts ??suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so….—Matthew ???19:7-8 ?

Hello Nathanial, ?

I think there are many things that happened in the human history and are recorded in the ??Old Testament. There are bad things that happened because we really did not know God ??and we had hardness hearts. The divorce and this imprecations are some of these ?incorrect ?things. But now, we know how the thing were in the beginning,we know God ?and we know what is the right thing to do in front of our enemies or people that hate us ??(Luke 6:27-31?).?

I know you are using Osama Bin Laden as an example name. Particularly in his case, I ??know there is ex-Muslim who pray for him, they pray for he becomes a modern Paul. It ?is ?not easy to do so, especially when people had escaped from radicals, but this is the ?right ?we are called to do.?

Sorry for my English, is there is some English orthographic mistakes, please edit my text.?

Bye, bye ?

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