[mandazzle]

When you pray, what do you thank God for? Who do you pray for? Is there someone or something you pray for every single day? For me, the number one thing I thank God for is the people that I know. The friends that I have bonded with. I thank Him for giving me a wonderful place to go during the summer that is the center of my spiritual life, and I could not ask for a better place than that. Every day I pray for the same 2 people, because they are very important people in my life. One person I pray that I will always know her, and I hope she is doing well because she has helped me so incredibly much and there are no words I can say to her to thank her well enough, so I pray that God gives her my love. The other person I know is facing hard times, so I pray that he is doing well and I hope that things look up for him because he deserves it. He has gone through some tough issues in his life. I also thank God for my family because I know they love me and I know they would help me with anything. Even if I don't like talking to them about certain issues, I know they will still be there for me.

[(JD)]

I thank God for all He gives me, which is much.

One of the "first" "things" I pray for are those I come in contact with (whether online or IRL)...I ask for His protection of them, the ones they love and the ones they love. (As any difficulties with those that they love can also cause them personally to suffer.)

I ask Him for guidance in all that I do, to give me words that He wants me to say and the right Spirit in saying them.

I also at times ask for Him to guide the T's of those here, asking that He give them guidance in the healing paths for the members. I include DocJohn because he has so many in his hand here.


Good topic!

[coralproper]

I thank God for the gift of life

[JustBJ]

I thank God for getting me through another day.

I ask him to watch over all my friends and to have mercy on all the people who have hurt me in the past.

I thank him for giving me such wonderful parents but always ask why did He call them home too soon.

[sabby]

The first thing I thank God for is his love and guidance. I then thank him for watching over my family and friends. I also thank him for listening and validating me, because that shows me the way to listen and validate others.


sabby

[nowheretorun]

chances

[spiritual_emergency]

<blockquote>
Mandazzle: When you pray, what do you thank God for?

Several years ago someone shared the following story with me and I loved it immediately. It resonates for me and represents, for me, what I think prayer is all about.

<blockquote>An Excerpt from an Interview with Mother Theresa...

Interviewer: When you talk to God, what do you say?

Mother Theresa: Nothing. I just listen.

Interviewer: And what does God say?

Mother Theresa: Nothing. God just listens.</blockquote>
That's meaningful to me because I've been to that place of Nothingness; that place of Silence. I remain grateful for the Silence.

I pray several times a day, when ever I just feel the need to. When I wake up in the morning the first thing I do is something that my friend Sara told me I should do this summer. I thank God for blessing me with another day with the ones I love and I tell God that I am ready for whatever he has in store for me but that I hope that he guides me through it. The most important things that i pray and thank God for everyday though are a few of my friends who I really want the best for. I pray that everything works out for them and that 5, 10 years from now we are as close as we are today. I thank GHodfor my family and i thank him for the fact that he is watching over my dad whose in Iraq.
I forget though a lot of the times to thank God for good things that happen in my life. I really should try harder.

[splitimage]

I thank God every night for helping me stay sober every day, and in the morning I ask for help in making it through the day. The concept of prayer is very new in my life, and I still struggle with it, so I'm keeping things really simple and basic at the moment.

--splitiimage

[OliviaC]

I thank God for being who he is; holy, omnipotent, being my Daddy in heaven who sent His Son, Himself in person, to save me, and loves me even though there is *nothing* I can do to earn that Love. Also thank him for all the many blessings he has bestowed on me; food to eat, shelter, family, friends, health, all and more.

I pray for people in my life who have specific needs and have asked for prayer (as in my small group meetings) for my family for salvation, for anything that comes to mind that I want to give to the Lord.

For patience for myself, for strength to be a better Christian, for wisdom and discernment, for my church, on and on. And I too pray throughout the day. I pray repentance and ask forgiveness for the times I sin, for protection of my loved ones. These are some of the things I pray for.

I pray several times a day... I thank God telling Him how very grateful I am for having Him in my life. I thank Him for my own son, for my home.. for having food.. that I have medical insurance...

Those things I have been without.. so I am always thankful because in a heartbeat they can be gone..

I pray a great deal for strength and courage.... that I can continue onwards... I pray for the people here on PC that they will have what they need in life and for their healing.

When I hear about an accident on the radio.. or TV... I pray for those people.. and their familes....that God will help them get thru their trials...

I pray for protection for my friends.. and for my son.....

and I pray a great deal for peace for myself...

[BalishBun]

my family.

[BalishBun]

oh, and waking up everyday.

[bebop]

right now I am thanking Him for my daughter's life.