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what significance does praying do to your life? to whom and why do you pray?

to all religious people no matter what your denomination is, either you are christian, catholic, buddhist, hindu, mormon, baptist, protestant, jewish, muslim, im curious how do you honor your religion...

serious answer, please....

Update:

im catholic but i've visited other religion as well. i found it fascinating that we all have different views and ways to honor our religion...

for me, praying helps me in my daily living, no matter what it is, i say devotedly my "our father" first, follow by "hail mary & holy mary", then i recite "apostle's creed" as a way to give respect to our god. then i start my appreciation to what's been delivered to me, especially to my family and to the mankind who does not have any faith. i ask help never for me but for the people that i love and cared for (and thats the mankind), especially the sickly, orphans, elders, disable, dying, the one who died already and for others who does not ask forgiveness..

i pray to cleanse my thoughts, to give me strength to handle whatever it is coming my way and to have better prospective in life. i know he will be there to guide and protect me, that is how strong my belief in him..

Update 2:

im glad and proud that you all feel that way towards praying..thanks for all your honest answers, i do appreciate your thoughts......

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I'm a southern baptist. I pray to God. I pray to him when I feel scared or just feel like I want to talk to him. Sometime when I'm home alone, and I feel scared I'll talk to God and he keeps me safe. Whenever I'm having trouble at school or I have a big test coming up I just ask God to lend me a small amount of his infinite wisdom. I pray to God at night, to let me be able to wake up in the morning, to keep me healthy and becuase of that I've never missed a day of school in my life (K-10th). That's 11 years for 180 days out of the year! How else would I be able to do all this if it wasn't for God? I know I definitely couldn't do it on my own.

    Source(s): CHURCH
  • 1 decade ago

    I have no set religion, I kind of have my own. I take parts of many different religions and use them in my every day life. It all boils down to a HIGHER POWER, everything else is just details, or accessories so you can say.

    I don't pray as often as I should. When something good happens I say thank you just not to any one particular being. When tribulations come I...well I guess you call it praying but I take a minute to look within myself to find the strength and courage need to face difficulties. The "Higher powers" that be have enough on their plate! If I can find the strength within myself I will. There have been times when I have need more strength and courage than I have in me. It was then that I prayed, just not to anyone in particular. I start my pray "Oh All Mighty One...."

  • 1 decade ago

    I have clear guidance from Jesus Christ right now.. I was "attacked by the world", maybe karma. by my sin (the 7 dwarfs/spirits), by the devil which is ego-mind the one I wanna seperate from.// I do it to get the chains out from around my heart, I feel them go.. I pray pretty much constantly also to raise my vibration and renew DNA/. Try to forgive everyone and pray for forgiveness for chaining Him in like that and to show Him I need Him back and that I love Him and that I am sorry..That I do not want the devil and his chains and that I cannot understand how I got here in the first place, why I ever turned away from Him..

    I pray to God and praise God and pray for the Holy Spirit (Mother God) and if I can marry my first Love (the Son)//

    He is helping me and cleaning those weirdos out of my bodytemple and when they are all gone, when we are alone, then we are Home..

    Love

  • 1 decade ago

    I am so thankful that I can go to God in prayer. There are times when I feel that no one else understands what I'm going through. God knows me better than I know myself.

    I am a Christian. I worship in a Baptist Church but don't feel that Baptists have a "stranglehold" on Truth.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Here are the words to a primary song I learned when I was young:

    I kneel to pray, everyday.

    I speak to Heavenly Father.

    He hears and answers me

    when I pray in faith.

    I begin by saying, "Dear Heavenly Father"

    I thank him for blessings he sends.

    Then humbly I ask him for things that I need,

    "In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

    basically what this sweet song says I do. I pray to my Heavenly Father, I thank him for my blessings, I ask for things I need and need help with, I end in "In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

    Praying works. The power is real and our prayers are answered. Sometimes the answer doesn't come when we think it should or isn't what we wanted but it is always what we need because He knows best what we need.

    I am LDS.

  • Buzz s
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    It has significance because God answers prayers. I pray to the Lord in Jesus name because we are asked to do that. Hebrews 4 tells us to come boldly before the throne of Grace.

  • 5 years ago

    It is considering the fact that the Indian Girls are consistently dependents on any one.When younger they're stylish on their mom and dad and while they're married they rely on their in-legislation normally and husband in special. In the husband, they uncover an capable associate who listens to them and take a look at to fulfill her in all of the methods and customarily is going together with her desires. She feels risk-free in his shadow.The lifestyles with out him can't be imagined. The completely happy lifestyles is with him in sharing and being concerned . She looks after the condo and the kids and wait eagerly for her husband and each stocks their strategies.It is normal that fasting for the welfare in their husband and youngsters is completed through indian better halves.. It isn't justified to mention that husbands do not take care of their better halves . They do care and unearths methods to exhibit their love in the direction of her. But the fairs so celebrated like Karwa Chauth has foundation from the beyond while husbands opt for incomes their livlihood clear of dwelling with out a lot delivery amenities and used to come back after months at a stretch.The spouse needed to look ahead to lengthy for him to go back and prayed for his heathy being.They fasted in aid in their husband as they weren't definite whether or not he used to be getting correct meals or no longer.This began the pageant while all of the women gathered in combination to wish for the lengthy lifestyles in their husband and fasting for the day and sharing reviews and prayer within the night time. Since husbands weren't there , they present their prayers to moon pondering that it is going to go at the message to him.

  • suzie
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Prayer has a lot of significance in my life. I pray to God the father of Jesus Christ in the Name of Jesus. I pray for guidance, to thank Him for things that He has done for me, to fellowship with Him, and to praise Him, among other things.-----The Bible says that we should pray always.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i feel that you're able to get your feelings out. and say good things about the ones that you love. personally, i pray for my family and my boyfriend and his family, that they are all healthy and happy.

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