Is anybody here who is into praying on your knees?

I know how I would. I would be prostrating myself at the least.

 

i love praying on my knees. but i would also love to get into praying like David did.

laying face down. (can't remember the verse where it says that...)

 

I've prayed on my knees before, but I usually pray sitting down or standing up or sometimes lying down. raying:

 

xdisciplex

I recall Peter praying on his knees when he raised Dorcas from the dead. Tradition says that James the Lord's brother had knees like a camel and wore a couple of indentions in the place where he prayed in the stone floor of the temple.

A lot of Western Christians think physical things like this aren't important. But the Bible talks a lot about prostrating for example. When you read the word 'worship' in the NT or OT, the chances are, it is a translation for a word for 'prostrate.' The Bible also talks about lifting our hands.

Lifting your hands makes your arms tired. Prostrating may not be the most comfortable position. You think kneeling is bad for the knees. But these things help us express and experience humility before the Lord.

Jesus also spoke of praying while standing. That is acceptable as well. I don't see where God commands us to kneel until we lose the bottom half of our legs. If I get too uncomfortable, I pray in another position. Sometimes I kneel on my bed, and that doesn't seem to bother my knees at all.

 

The vast majority of my praying is done behind the wheel of my 18 wheeler. Were I to get on my knees today I'd have great difficulty getting back up, my knees being what they are. I've spent my time on my knees in earlier days though.

 

A very scriptual and godly view. Good job!:thumbs:

 

I could care less how you pray but when you talk about how I pray then you are interferring with my worship and that I do care for.

What you said about how others pray!

I think this is really disturbing

I think this is perverse.

Where is the difference between praying on your knees and accepting pain and beating your back with a whip?

I think that this is somehow perverse

praying on your knees when it hurts your knees is simply sick.

 

I don't think anyone gets on their knees for pain. They get on their knees to try and be humble before God. They try to humble their heart and try to be as humble in body as in Spirit.
Your remarks touch a nerve for people who are trying to live as close to God as they can and make it as sure as they can because we only pass this way but once. The Bible is full of people who even laid face down to pray.
I really think we all have our own hands full doing our own praying and anytime we see something we don't understand we should go and take a look in the mirror.
I would much rather see someone on their knees praying than to see someone saying its "sick".
I accept you not wanting to offend me and hope you have learned not to infringe on others when they worship God.

 

I don't want to offend you, xx.

:wavey:

:wavey:

You need a personal relationship with :jesus:

You need to find a godly pastor.

And you need to spend a long time in serious discipleship.

:wavey:

 

Its called a mourning bench that someone in trouble come to the front of the church and prays. We don't use them but a lot of US churches do. Believe me, most churches today have carpet as plush as our beds so they not going to hurt too bad.
Again, we don't have anything like that. People pray where they are sitting in our church. Some kneel and some just sit because it hurts as you say for them to try to get down on their knees, but if they were able, they for sure would be on their knees. We remember Scripture.

Mat 6:5¶And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites [are]: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

 

I am totally repelled when someone is religious instead of having a relationship with Jesus.

If I went to a place where everyone was religious instead of Believers, then I would know that I was in a sect.

I mean that I really don't want to offend you, and I should be more specific. I think that it's sick when you think that your style of worship without faith somehow pleases God.

Maybe you feel good about yourself when you endure a good life without pain. I mean you do not even pray on your knees.

And this is sick.

You need a personal relationship with Jesus and not with a computer chat board.

 

Not at all, pray whereever and whenever but do it humble.

I just wanted you to know Jesus put a different slant on it than you did.

I just don't know how you can "humble" pray while judging how others pray.

 

xx

On one of your other threads, you have said that you cannot understand a miracle and you want to see one. No one but God can help you. Your faith in an Internet solution cannot help you. Only faith in Almighty God.

Salvation is a miracle. God changes a lost soul from a path to damnation to one of His children.

This is the Roman Road. You need to find a mentor that can guide you in the process (sometimes called sinners prayer) of salvation and then discipleship.

Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Rom 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Rom 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Rom 10:10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Rom 10:13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”

xx - your questioning your faith is not uplifting, and it is not nice. If you had the relationship with Jesus that you claim that you want to have, you would understand many of the questions that you ask about. IMHO.