Prayer

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This paper discusses how prayer can be considered communication with God and how this communication takes many modes and dynamics. It examines how prayer can take different forms: subject, gestures and emotions with each of the categories being cross-related. It also looks at how prayer can be classified into different types such as prayers of thanksgiving, prayers of petition and supplication and prayers of intercession.

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"If prayer is conceived only in abstraction, as the relationship with the transcendent God outside the universe, and is not integrated with man's life in the world and the human community, it loses its appeal for modern man, according to Schillebeeck who writes: "Life in-and-for-the-world feeds our understanding of God, as it were; in essence, Christian religious faith means that our concrete existence is a divine promise of salvation." (Schillebeeck, 1981) The New Testament, through the words of those who would carry the mantle of early Christianity ensured that prayer like everything else was in celebration of God's glory (I Corinthians 10:31 , Colossians 3:17, 23 ) and the importance of God (Romans 6:13 , Romans 14:7, 8 )."

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