When teaching his disciples how to pray, Jesus told them a sure-to-be-fruitful way to pray.
Jesus based this on an attitude they should adopt to enter into prayer.
He told them:
« When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. »(Matthew 6:6)
Entering the room and closing the door means isolation and separation from all other things that can distract us.
Our room is our heart.
It is in our hearts that we speak with God.
So, to pray with confidence, we must pray with concentration.
This means that our thoughts, body and spirit must come into harmony, because it is not good to begin saying the words of prayer without first thinking about the work we are going to begin doing.
At that moment, no part of us can deny what we say in prayer, because our emotions and our will join our body and our mind and are in agreement.
This is what Jesus said: if we pray, we should not have doubts in our heart.
« Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. »(Mark 11:24)
If we pray with doubts in our hearts, it is in vain because we do not believe that what we are praying for is possible.
« He who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. »(James 1:6)
However, if we have no doubt in our heart, our faith will immediately begin to show us what we are praying for, and we will see it with the eyes of the spirit before we see it with the eyes of our body.
PRAYER:
Lord our God, grant us to always pray to you without doubt.
It is in the precious name of your son Jesus Christ that we pray, Amen.
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