GET OUTTA YOUR MIND!
No, really. Get it out of your head and into the air. It helps!
When the timing is appropriate and you're not distracting others from a time of sincere worship, yes, get it out. Say it out loud. Hear what you're saying. Audibly professing your faith to God does wonders for your own faith as well as having the potential to help others. It shows God you're not ashamed of who He is. It's affirming to get it out in the open. Yes, I believe, and I will shout it from the mountaintops!
The thing for me about praying out loud is that is makes God real for me. It makes Him feel like less of an untouchable entity in the sky and more of a friend. Someone I can talk to - literally. And that's great, because He is a living God, who yearns to have a relationship with me. He wants to offer me Himself, because He knows He is the one truth I can hold onto in this world.
So even if you're alone in your room, on a walk around the neighborhood, or in your car on the way to work --- let it out. It is not only beneficial to demand sentences from the mush that is your brain but it also is a statement of faith. God will hear your messy jumble of a prayer, and He will listen. He will help you. He will never forsake us. He promised us that in Deuteronomy (3:16) and again in Hebrews (13:5). Believe in those words. Be bold, and pray out loud!
No, really. Get it out of your head and into the air. It helps!
When the timing is appropriate and you're not distracting others from a time of sincere worship, yes, get it out. Say it out loud. Hear what you're saying. Audibly professing your faith to God does wonders for your own faith as well as having the potential to help others. It shows God you're not ashamed of who He is. It's affirming to get it out in the open. Yes, I believe, and I will shout it from the mountaintops!
Jesus goes on to encourage us to pray in the privacy of our rooms so our out-loud prayer doesn't become a verbal show. Praying out loud can be helpful because it keeps you from getting lost in your head. It makes your thoughts concrete. But it is more than technique; it is also a statement of faith. You are audibly declaring your belief in a God who is alive.This is a piece of advice that I've picked up over the last few months or so. At first, it came as a complete shock to me. Who would dare to look so silly, as if talking to themselves on a run or in the drivethrough?! So, I started out in the shower. I've graduated to my room, my car, and even at church during pre-service prayer.
-A Praying Life by Paul Miller
The thing for me about praying out loud is that is makes God real for me. It makes Him feel like less of an untouchable entity in the sky and more of a friend. Someone I can talk to - literally. And that's great, because He is a living God, who yearns to have a relationship with me. He wants to offer me Himself, because He knows He is the one truth I can hold onto in this world.
So even if you're alone in your room, on a walk around the neighborhood, or in your car on the way to work --- let it out. It is not only beneficial to demand sentences from the mush that is your brain but it also is a statement of faith. God will hear your messy jumble of a prayer, and He will listen. He will help you. He will never forsake us. He promised us that in Deuteronomy (3:16) and again in Hebrews (13:5). Believe in those words. Be bold, and pray out loud!
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