How to pray on your knees
How to pray on your knees
Christian prayer is first and foremosta dialogue with God, with the Holy Saints. In addition to the fact that a person through prayer has the opportunity to turn to the Higher Mind, he receives from him an answer, help, grace. Many people have questions about how to properly address God, in what position the body should be in prayer. Is it really better to pray on your knees so that the appeal will be heard by the Almighty.
Instructions
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When a person enters the temple, he can seeamong the worshipers of those who stand at the altar or before the icons, or stands before the images on their knees or even lies face down on the floor. There are many opinions about how the body should be in prayer. To the one, neither the church nor the prayers came.
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It is believed that if a sinner prayskneeling, thus, he more actively raises the Lord to his mercy. There is also an opinion that those parishioners who kneel in prayer, rise again, go down again - they do not just read the words of the scriptures, but also work in their address to God, they perform a certain feat of the believer.
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The body of a person during prayer is determined byintensity of conversion to God. If there is a desire to drop down on your knees in an earnest appeal - make this gesture. Any body movement of a person, if he feels that his prayer will reach the Lord sooner, is permissible in a prayerful address to him.
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In addition to kneeling, during prayer very muchgood to do prostrations. They help to assemble the body, mind and attention of the worshiper into a single whole. Especially prayer kneeling with bows will be to the place in the mornings, before workdays.
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During a prayer reading at home or in the churchyou should overshadow yourself with the sign of the cross, pronounce the words "In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit." The church believes that with every sign of the cross, the person praying brings God's power closer to him.
