Attitudes in prayer
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· 5 viewsAttitudes in prayer include both the postures people adopt while praying and the hopes that they have concerning its outcome. Scripture points to the need for humility and expectation on the part of those who pray.
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Positions adopted for prayer
Positions adopted for prayer
Bowing down and kneeling
Bowing down and kneeling
O come, let us worship and bow down:
Let us kneel before the Lord our maker.
See also Ge 24:26; Ex 4:31; Is 45:23; Da 6:10; Lk 22:41; Ac 7:60; Eph 3:14; Php 2:10
Falling on one’s face before God
Falling on one’s face before God
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
See also Nu 20:6; Jos 5:14; 2 Ch 20:18
Standing
Standing
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
See also 1 Ki 8:22; Lk 18:11
Attitudes in the spiritual life
Attitudes in the spiritual life
Standing for warfare
Standing for warfare
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
See also 2 Th 2:15; Jas 5:8
Walking with God
Walking with God
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good;
And what doth the Lord require of thee,
But to do justly, and to love mercy,
And to walk humbly with thy God?
See also Is 40:31; 1 Jn 1:7
Running
Running
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
See also Is 40:31