Prayer is at the core of everything we do as Christians. We pray in many ways. We pray as individuals, as a couple, as a small group, large group and worldwide. There are many types of Prayer. The common prayer all Christians share is the Our Father. When Jesus was asked by His disciples to teach them how to pray as John the Baptist was doing with his followers, Jesus taught them to pray to Our Father.

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 Prayer is personal and in the Hebrew Bible Prayer is defined as an "evolving means of interacting with God, most frequently through a spontaneous, individual, unorganized form of petitioning and/or thanking. 

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Prayer may also be more structured and organized where two or more wish to pray the same prayer together. 

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While there are volumes of suggestions, books, and prayer formats, the most important part of prayer is simply to remember to invite God into everything you do, a constant conversation, an awareness of His presence from the time you wake up until the time you fall asleep. It is truly a better way to live, like having your very-best friend right beside you. You are never alone and you see life through an entirely different lens. 

 

Matthew Kelly in his latest book I Heard God Laugh, describes his family friend (John), teaching him HOW to pray using a very simple way sometime referred to as mental or contemplative prayer. Kelly calls it the Prayer of the Heart – your heart speaking with God about whatever emerges in your soul.

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