what is prayer here's my definition prayer is intentionally conveying a message to God now language is frustrating because of how unclear it is almost all the time when it comes to important matters so you should ask why in the world do you define prayer as intentionally conveying a message to God why don't you just say prayer is talking to God it's just conveying a message intentionally what what's the deal just use real ordinary language like prayer is talking to God and here's the first reason why I tried that and rejected it because it says in
Romans 8:26 the spirit helps us in our weakness so we don't know how to pray as we ought that the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words now I take that to mean not that he's out there somewhere groaning in heaven but he's right here when I'm speechless don't know what to say and these groanings are rising from the spirit with meaning and no hearts so I chose conveying a message which you can do with wordless groanings there's my first reason for groping for some language that didn't seem quite normal at
first here's here's the second question you should ask me why don't you just say it's then communicating with God I'd be a little less awkward than intentionally conveying a message why don't you just say prayer is communicating with God and here's the reason I tried that and rejected it because it sounds when you say that like you mean you're communicating that way and he's communicating this way and that's prayer that's not prayer the Bible never calls God's communication to us prayer never and we get ourselves into a big model when we concoct phrases to that
effect like his talking to us is the kind of Prayer it isn't and so I'm gonna avoid communicating with because it's got that ambiguity about it like this communications going both ways and both ways constitute prayer one way constitutes prayer the other we call revelation or illumination we don't call it God prays or we are praying when God's talking prayer is a conveying of a message to God now why the word intentional prayer is the intentional conveying of a message to God from my heart why do you use the word intentional well for this reason
people are conveying two messages to God all day long that they don't mean two messages like God is not important to me or God is irrelevant to this situation work God does not exist these are all messages people are sending to God all day long by the way they act the way they talk the way what they do and don't do these messages are going up to heaven all day you're not important you're not important you're not important that's not prayer unless they mean it and they don't mean they're not thinking because it doesn't exist
he's not important they were to talk to him and we don't call that unintentional message giving to God which we can sometimes discern and God always discerns prayer so I chose the words they're maybe better you can perhaps improve on it prayer is intentionally conveying a message to God you
