Women praying

You saying all or one of you doesn't pray? Remember, it's not too late for a come back.

 

While that is a principle it is not a guarantee. Just look at Judas and Jesus. Jesus being God was also the master of communication and faithfulness. After all He is and was God. Who to better have as a perfect example? Many parents are godly people and have one or more children who are not. I came from a godless home. Does my faith come from my parents and my living the Christian life align itself with that verse. Of course not.

While one can train a child to pray and that is what is needed most not a bulldog mentality that one can force a child to pray. You cannot make a child pray to God in a genuine heart felt way through force, nor more than the enemy can get a prisoner of war to love him through torture. If anyone has dealt with children from legalistic homes he knows the problems the children have. When one looks at Deut. 6 walking with God, it is not forced but the child is instructed through everyday dialog. For years my daughter went with me to the hospital and many times has watched me share my faith with others we know or meet. She knows how to share her faith by watching her mom and dad, not by a lecture or me being a bulldog to her and forcing her to tell someone about Jesus. She has been sharing her faith since about kindergarten. When she decided she wanted to be baptized she asked the pastor if I could baptize her. She told us that she felt she needed to be baptized. So we let her wrestle with that issue and talked about what baptism meant historically and the price the early Christians paid for being baptized and making Christ their Lord. We did not force her to get baptized. she made that decision with all of the facts known to her and without pressure from us. She did wrestle with the fact that she does not like water. Once she wrestled with her personal issues she then decided to get baptized.

Years ago I asked an elderly man how he trained people to share their faith. I had watched that man for almost ten years and noticed that every person he discipled shared their faith. So I wanted to know his approach. He told me that he did nothing to teach them to share their faith. So I started doing the same thing. I found that people will go through a struggle and then make it their responsibility not because I tell them or force them to do it. Today many that I have trained are leaders of churches and major ministries. That man told me that he encourages them and prays for them. He lets them struggle with sharing their faith. I have watched people as they struggle with sharing their faith and then become more determined to start. Once they vegin to share with me that they know they need to share their faith then we begin to pray for the people they want to share their faith with. When leading my family I regularly met with a man who had already raised some godly children whom I knew were living for Christ. I regularly sought his advice. I did what he suggested and I am glad I did.

I have never told our daughter that we were sharing our faith or we were witnessing. We just did it in a very natural way as God opened the doors. In fact there were times she told us that she wanted to visit her friends as we travelled. So there were many times we stopped to see her friend and met the parents. Many times we shared our faith with the parents. Now that our daughter just started college she asks about how to deal with particular questions. she sharesd her faith with other students. We have had that same sort of dialog for years. Isn't that what parenting is all about?

I am dealing with a man right now who is 55 and had very legalistic parents. I see his pain and what he deals with. He was not instructed as a child but his dad was a bulldog. He has had a lot troubles learning to love his wife because of such legalism. It created a lot of chaos in his home and rebellion among his children. I know he likes coming to my home because we are not like that. I am finally seeing his children come around as he learns how to be a loving parent.

 

My wife and I take turns praying before each meal. While it's not always a 50/50 split, it's usually in that vacinity.

Also, when we pray together each night before bed (on those nights I'm not working the graveyard shift) there are some nights I lead in prayer and some nights she leads in prayer.

 

Nothing wrong with a woman praying at the table anytime she wants to do it, the husband should share this with the whole family and if he is the type that does not pray then the wife should do it.

 

I like the way we do it in the churches/homes here----everyone holds their palms upright to Heaven and we all pray---at the same time.

 

Praying in the home, is definitely different from praying publicly in Church:

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What women do at home, is up to there husband or father:
(But activity within the Church, has Biblical guidelines!)

 

Women prayed in the public assemblies (1 Cor 11:5).

 

Yep. Paul placed only one condition on them--that they not pray with their heads uncovered.

 

1 Cor 11: 15.."But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given her for a covering."

In direct relation to the prostitutes who had their heads shaven in public.....

Cheers,

Jim

 

I agree.

Tim Reynolds

 

Jim, thanks for putting my post in context about women not praying with their heads uncovered.

 

Tom, Happy to confirm your post.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Yep. I see no other way to read this text.

 

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

How about the lifting up of hands?

HankD​

 

Can you define what you mean by "pray publicly?"

 

Places where they can be heard by those listening. That may mean in church or in the public domain.