Friday, May 27, 2005

Tuning My Will to that of a Loving God

By Matthew the Poor, ORTHODOX PRAYER LIFE:

In prayer, God's personal will and ours meet. Christ's will is sharply focused upon our own salvation, renewal, and rescue. Nothing can thwart Christ's will for us except our failure to pray. All sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed who prayed and asked Christ to heal them are those whom he healed. Never did Christ cast out any man who believed in him and asked him. The will of Christ, which is ever present, is always willing and able to save completely all those who come to him by prayer in faith. Through prayer, our will becomes like that of Christ. Through prayer we gain his Spirit and are conformed to his will. His power thus rests upon us.

But in the first bit of advice from a priest as I considered converting, "Learn to pray as Orthodox." And he gave me the Pocket Prayer Book for Orthodox Christians, sampled here. For some other prayers, including Morning and Evening, see here.

Try it, it might change you like it did me (a little)!

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