PRAYER POSITIONS!

"Prayer Positions" vary.

How? Where? Why?

Position?

• Eyes open with Bible open.
• Eyes closed with heart open.
• Hands clasped. Hands raised.
• Kneeling. Prostrate.Standing.

Where?

• Anywhere!
• At a ping-pong table or on a marathon route.
• inside or outside.
• Alone or with a friend or friends.

Position matters not.

Location matters not. 

What matters is a heart connected with God. (Psalm 46:10)

Be still and know that He is God----how ever you say it or however your pray it.

FITNESS ESSENTIALS!

Fitness usually brings to mind the physical aspect. 

Requirements.....Discipline. Diet. Action.

Spiritual Fitness is much the same---requiring a daily (discipline) diet of feeding on God's word and putting into action what one has learned. (Jeremiah 15:16)

Spiritual Fitness....an essential to pass on to the next generation!

VIEW FROM A PORCH SWING

Today is Wednesday. Wordsmith Wednesday.

Words fail me. Words escape me.

Others' words are necessary.

 

In quietness and trust is my strength. (Isaiah 30:15)

Cool breeze. Tinkling of chimes,

Seeking that calm posture of prayer while sitting on a porch swing. 

A time of quiet repose. Letting go of fears.

Words from an old hymn come to mind.

For the beauty of the earth, For the beauty of the skies,

For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies,

Lord of all to Thee we (I) raise 

This our (my) hymn of grateful praise.

Enough said...thought and hummed, 

Just stillness from a porch swing.

PRAYER POSITION OF THE HEART!

Prayer is more than words.

Prayer is a position of the heart!

A position with depth.

Well said, John Bunyan.

Enough said!

PRAYER POSITIONS!

Be still---whether in your prayer place or in wide one spaces.

If you can't kneel physically, you can kneel in your heart.

If you can't bow your head because of neck pain, close your eyes and bow in your heart.

Prayer positions are inward. Positions of the heart.

PRAYER POSITIONS---A HOLY HUDDLE!

In 2015, Coach Joseph Kennedy of Bremerton high school lost his job after  kneeling post game on the 50 yard line in prayer. Some of his players and members of the community joined him. 

January 2, 2023, while playing in the Buffalo Bills'/Cincinnati Bengals game, Bills' player, Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest after a hit. After CPR and ambulance transport to an area hospital, the prayers started.....all over the field, in the stands and even aloud from the broadcast booth! At least from the lips of the 2 men...I never heard the word prayer from the "lady" commentator.

Prayers spilling way beyond the 50 yard line. 

The Bills met the Patriots in the play-off game in their on stadium on January 8, 2023. 

Gathering for pre-game prayer for teammate Hamlin 

and dedicate the game to him.

Notice the crosses under Hamlin's eyes.

What a way to start a game.....A holy huddle for sure!

CHOOSE: PRAYER IN ANY POSITION

While VBS "campers" in Memphis were learning that "God is always with us," (Joshua 1:9) and acting out positions of sleeping, driving, playing, running everywhere and praying.............

..........congressmen in Virginia at a ball practice chose a pray stance as they prayed for wounded colleagues and Capitol police after a lone gunman shot at the participants early in the day. 

A standing position with heads bowed. 

I know because I saw it on my TV as the news was broadcast. People coming together to pray for others.

In biblical accounts of prayer many positions are noted: "Abraham fell on his face before God;" (Genesis 17:3) "Moses prayed with outstretched arms;" (Exodus 9:29) "King Solomon knelt before the altar with hands outstretched toward heaven;" (1 Kings 8:54) and Jesus prayed looking up to heaven." (John 17:1)

My 6 old attendees know that prayer is "talking to God," and there is not a required position. 

Prayer's the expression of the attitude of one's heart---a heart which is bowed in worship regardless of any certain physical position.

That's why believers can choose to pray any place, anytime and in any position.