Key Verse: Verse 25 - “And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Key Words: And when you stand praying, forgive
The key to prayer is not the position of our body but the condition of our heart.
I’ve heard all kinds of argument on how we should position ourselves for prayer: on our knees, folded hands, raised hands, prostrate.
Reminds me of the following:
Three ministers were talking about prayer in general and the appropriate and effective positions for prayer. As they were talking, a telephone repairman was working on the phone system in the background. One minister said that he felt the key was in the hands. He always held his hands together and pointed them upward as a form of symbolic worship. The second suggested that real prayer was conducted on one’s knees. The third suggested that they both had it wrong – the only position worth its salt was to pray while stretched out flat on your face.
By this time the phone man couldn’t stay out of the conversation any longer. He interjected: “I found that the most powerful prayer I ever made was while I was dangling upside down by my heels from a power pole, suspended forty feet above the ground.”
Now, there’s a position that can lead to powerful prayer!!
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞ Remember, it’s not the position of the body but the condition of the heart that leads to powerful prayer.
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