Article February 23, 2009 Issue

GOD-EMPOWERED PRAYER

BY BARBARA VINING

When it comes to prayer, it's amazing how wrapped up we can become over our own personal ability to pray effectively. Whether or not we have the right words, for example, can become a major distraction; whereas—with or without words—the most effective prayer springs from a conviction, not of our own ability, but of God's. This conviction is reached through God-centered, not self-centered, prayer. It is, after all, through God's all-power at work within us that His power is brought to bear on the human need we are concerned about. Humility, then, is a good place to begin our prayer.>

WE WILL GIVE OURSELVES CONTINUALLY TO PRAYER.—Acts 6:4

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Contributing editor Barbara Vining is a Christian Science practitioner and teacher who lives in Perrysburg, Ohio. She is currently serving as President of The Mother Church.

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