JanBeek

Has anyone ever taught you HOW to pray? Here is a 7 step process that my grand-nephew was studying today. I listened in.

1. GRATITUDE: Get comfortable. Be still. Deeply breathe in. Breathe out by anxiety.
   Express Gratitude to God. Tell God what you are grateful for.
2. AWARENESS. Revisit the times in the past 24 hours when you were the best version of yourself. Then talk to God about the times when you were not the best version of yourself. Talk to Him abut hw you will handle the situation better in the future.
3. SIGNIFICANT MOMENT… recall a moment when you felt God was trying to teach you something through an event or action. Talk to God about that significant moment.
4. PEACE: Ask God to forgive you for anything you have done that you feel badly bout. Ask for forgiveness, and ask God to fill Yyou with deep, deep, peace.
5. FREEDOM: Ask God to help you be the best version of yourself. Ask him how you can change to be the person He made you to be. Ask God for the Courage and Strength to make this change in your life.
6. OTHERS: Lift up to God anyone you feel you want to lift to Hi today. Ask for the specific way you want God to bless the people in your life that you care about. One at a time, bring them to God.
7. OUR FATHER: Pray the prayer you might often say by rote. But this time, say it slowly and find meaning in each phrase:
   Our Father, who art in heaven
   Hallowed be Thy name
   Thy kingdom come
   Thy will be done
   On earth as it is in heaven
   Give us this day our daily bread
   And forgive us our debts
   As we forgive our debtors
   Lead us not into temptation
   But deliver us from evil
   For Thine is the Kingdom,
   And the Power,
   And the Glory
   Forever.
   Amen