Praying Positions

When you pray are you supposed to sit? stand? kneel? or what? There's no one right position to pray in. . . praying on your knees bring no more answers than walking as you pray. . . the condition of your "heart" is what matters! God is listening to those who have a "clean and humble heart". I do believe when I Pray for a long period you should kneel in respect especially in the House of GOD, Church or Sanctuary. 

Paul mentions that we as Christians should be in a constant Prayer mode. This would be impossible on your knees or bowing all the time. You will see in scripture that Jesus lifted his head toward Heaven. David lifted his eyes to Heaven. 

Lets take this in a new direction. Many who came to Jesus to get Healed. Matthew 9:18 says, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is now dead: but come and lay thy hand up on her, and she shall live. You can give worship to GOD in any form. Only GOD can raise a person from the dead. This was a Prayer from his heart. Take Matthew 8:2, And behold there came a Leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord if thou wilt canst make me clean.

Prayer is speaking from your Heart. It can be vocal or silent. So you can see giving Praise, Honor or Thanks is Prayer. Sometimes you will feel you need to kneel or bow other times just saying it. For our private Praying it should be on how you feel at the time in your Prayer Closet. Some can not kneel, you have a physical reason so you have to sit. You may be laid up in bed on your back. "It is the speaking and your Heart response that counts."

Here are just a few of the Prayer Positions found in the Bible. . . 

• Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. Exodus 34:8 NIV
• Come let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. Ps 95:6 (NIV)
• Then David said to the whole assembly, "Praise the LORD your God." So they all praised the LORD, the God of their fathers; they bowed low and fell prostrate before the LORD and the king. 1 Chronicles 29:20 NIV
• I lay prostrate before the LORD those forty days and forty nights because the LORD had said he would destroy you. Deuteronomy 9:25 NIV
• Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the LORD. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the LORD. Judges 20:26 NIV
• When Solomon had finished all these prayers and supplications to the LORD, he rose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven. 1 Kings 8:54 NIV
• Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving hanks to his God, just as he had done before. Daniel 6:10 NIV
• When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven. Nehemiah 1:4 NIV
• I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. Psalms 63:4 NIV
• I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone... I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands, 1 Tim 2:1,8 (NIV) 
• Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord. Ps 134:2 (NIV)
•  Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." Matthew 26:39 NIV
• After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. John 17:1 NIV
• Ps 123:1 (NIV) I lift up my eyes to you, to you whose throne is in heaven.

"Any method, absolutely any method, is your method if you find it opens doors 
toward Heaven and helps you gain contact with GOD. And it is not your method, 
no matter who does it, if it does not succeed in doing that".

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