Not in my house we didn't.  We would start a prayer with Dear God or God or God in Heaven.  And Wehn we pray we just said what we wanted God to do.  Straight from the heart.
 
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is

IN GOD WE TRUST
-KC- Ministries
 
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> Don't you protestants say "the Our Father"? I thought you did. That prayer
> was a prescribed prayer. What about that bed time prayer said by children
> "now I lay me down to sleep? Isn't that prescribed.
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> > I agree that is why I am not Luthern, Catholic or musilum. I would rather
> pray from the heart not read a rpayer. I bet that hurts God's heart. and
> that is why he says the does not like repitious prayers and actions.
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> > I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out
> there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there
> is
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> > IN GOD WE TRUST
> > -KC- Ministries
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> > > Yes, how simple, and how many people use pre-made prayers. How would you
> > > like it if your child said a memorized statement to you everyday at
> mealtime
> > > and said nothing else to you? And how easy it is to leave God out of our
> > > conversation and just referr to He, Him, His, without saying You, Your,
> and
> > > Yours? As blind people, we tend to experience other people talking at us
> > > instead of to us. That helps me understand how God might be feeling.
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I agree that is why I am not Luthern, Catholic or musilum.  I
> would rather pray from the heart not read a rpayer.  I bet that hurts
> God's heart.  and that is why he says the does not like repitious
> prayers and actions.

> >
 

> >
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I would rather live my life as if
> there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if
> there isn't, and die to find out there is

IN GOD WE TRUST
-KC-
> Ministries

> >
 

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> Sharon Hooley <[log in to unmask]>

> Yes, how simple,
> and how many people use pre-made prayers. How would you
> like it if
> your child said a memorized statement to you everyday at mealtime
>
> and said nothing else to you? And how easy it is to leave God out of our
>
> conversation and just referr to He, Him, His, without saying You,
> Your, and
> Yours? As blind people, we tend to experience other
> people talking at us
> instead of to us. That helps me understand how
> God might be feeling.
>
> Sharon

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