Hey Vicki I also do that when someone asks for prayer I breathe a prayer
while I am reading there request or I sometimes stop what I am doing right
then and pray


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vicki and The Rors" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: Prayhing Out loud


> Ned,
>
> I love your point about others want to hear us pray for them.  So often
> someone will ask for prayer and I'll just say I will.  I got really
> convicted of saying I would and then not doing it.  So if I say I will, I
> try to pray for that person right then, even if they don't hear me.  Well,
> the other day, it was actually somebody on this list who called me for
> prayer.  I prayed for them right then and there.  When I hung up, I had
> tears pouring down my face, and it hit me!  What a privilege we have to
> bring that other person before the Lord.  I know the lord is always with
> us
> as in Immanuel, God with us, and by the presence of his Holy Spirit.  But
> what a privilege to all of a sudden appear before the awesome throne of
> God
> with a request, a need for someone he absolutely loves and gave his very
> life for.
>
> Sorry for preaching.  LOL!
>
> Vicki
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ned Benton" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [ECHURCH-USA] Prayhing Out loud
>
>
>> Praying out loud is a problem for a lot of people.  I remember in my
>> earliest time of being a Christian, I could hardly think of praying out
>> loud.  One night, at a home Bible study, my mother in the Gospel, the
>> lady
>> who lead me to the Lord, she asked me to pray.  I knew I had to do it but
> I
>> didn't think I could.  I began and managed a few words before I nearly
>> choked on the words and my breath.  You know how it si?  You take a deep
>> breath to begin and it never seems to come out but just chokes you.  I
>> was
>> scared spitless!  It really isn't hard to pray out loud.  Vicki gave some
>> good advice: pray out loud when you are alone and you will get use to
>> hearing it.  Also, don't worry about how your prayer sounds but just but
>> open and honest with Jesus when you pray.  Pray as if it were just you
>> and
>> Him. Prayer is such a blessing to people like the ones who ask Rhonda and
>> Marvella  or whoever it was to pray for them.  Too many times when people
>> ask us to pray for them, we say "I will certainly for you" ;and then
> don't.
>> Many times they really want us to pray right then and there and it
>> blesses
>> their hearts to hear us talk to the Lord on their behalf.  As much as you
>> may fear praying out loud, do it a few times and that fear will go away
> and
>> you can be used of the Lord in a mightier way.
>>
>> Just my two cents worth.
>>
>> Ned
>>
>