What is prayer and why it is needed
Well our grandfathers and great-grandfathers lived - they cradle the words of prayer have heard since childhood were able to sign of the cross itself fall, they even think such a question did not come: and how to pray? Now, centuries-long ties were broken, and now we are learning all over again, often - for yourself.
In fact, prayer - this appeal from our hearts to the Lord going. Therefore, any of your words that come from the heart and turned to the Lord, and may be considered a prayer. But in the tradition of Orthodox Christianity, had special appeal to the Creator and his saints, which are called canonical.
You may ask: "What is the best, correct to pray? In your own words or to learn specific words - a prayer? "
I will answer you this way: of course, a simple subtraction rule does not mean prayer. Prayer - a conversation with God, and turning to Him, we must remember that God - a living entity, and monotonous, mindless reading will not be accepted by Him. Therefore, if you're bad you know the prayer, rather briefly, in your own words, but in full attention, than to recite a piece of paper a lot of long prayers, stumbling over words, being distracted by extraneous thoughts.
Let us remember once again that prayer - the words are not simple. They sent down by the Lord through the holy, righteous men, wise men.
There is evidence that prayer alone can give salvation and avert disaster. Jesus Christ is a prayer offering as an opportunity to correct something: "If ye hedgehog that (if that) ask the Father in my name, make, Father may be glorified in the Son" (Jn 14.13).
The beauty of prayer is great, and the depth of meaning is that only one prayer of sorting out, it is possible to comprehend the essence of God closer. And even the recitation of these sacred words can also give relief in sickness, and answers to many questions, and the solution of complex and solace in the mountain.
And not enough and one inside your own prayer, without external, canonical, not as a man of the soul without a body, for God's good pleasure to make a man out of soul and body. So that the knowledge of the prayers I pochinayu as the very first ambulance in any trouble.
