Everybody gets nervous in group prayer. So you spend all the time you aren't speaking thinking about what you're going to say, at the expense of praying along with the others. Then when it gets to your turn you say that prayer that you rehearsed in your head a dozen times and two things happen: You didn't pray along with the people that you're there to pray with and when it finally came to your turn you didn't even pray what you had rehearsed because you were too worried about sounding like you had a plan going into the prayer.
Forget about that.
Listen and pray what they're praying. Don't think about anything else. Then when it comes to your turn, split open your heart and just let whatever is in there spill out all over the place. Who cares if you conjugated your verbs properly? Not God! Who cares if you pray the same thing everyone else already prayed? Not God! Who cares if you pause for a few seconds mid sentence to compose your thoughts? Not God! Who cares if you come off sounding a little silly? Not God!
He's interested in your heart! Don't keep it from Him.
2 comments:
this is true!
I figured this out in our last small group semester. It was a cool realization.
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