Course name: Prayers. Topic 1


Course 4:

PRAYER 

Topic 1:

INTRODUCTION:


Prayer is the most important of the 5pillars of the Catholic Divine Project. A Project who cannot pray and still remains in the project falls under the following categories:

I. Abandoned Project.

II. Fallen Project.

III. Stale or Moribund Project. This highlights the cogent needs of Prayer in the existence of the Divine Project. In other to avoid being a moving corpse, every Project member must be rooted in Prayer because Prayer is our tap root through which we draw both physical and spiritual nutrients and also through which we are sustained in any turbulent situation. It is our route to the Heart of the Trinity.

Definition of Prayer.

 A devout petition to God or an object of worship. A Spiritual Communion with God or an object of worship, as in Supplication, Thanksgiving, Adoration, or Confession. The act or practice of praying to God or an object of worship.


What is prayer according to the Bible?

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


The Catholic Catechism states, Prayer is the raising of one's heart and mind to God or the requesting of good things from God (Catholic Catechism 2259).

Prayer can also considered as making a plea, soliciting for favor, making a humble request and asking with hope to receive from any one who is better off or in authority or in charge all in a humble and expectant heart. Example:

Captive praying for to the Captor for his freedom. 

Defendant praying to the judge for mercy.

Student, praying to the teacher for fairness etc. In all our prayers must be directed to the Trinity even if it is indirect because it is the Trinity that taught us to pray, gave us the prayer that we pray and told us when to pray them. So let us continue lifting up our hearts and minds to the Trinity in our daily and seasonal prayers as we have been commanded.

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