EricS wrote:
Do you know how to pray?
Seriously, I don't. I can hear others praying. But if it ever comes to my turn to pray, I'm like sweating, not knowing what words to come out of my mouth to pray! I felt so embarrassed, I wish to run away right there. As I've read before, Jesus tell not to be like the pharisees who pray so loud that everyone can hear, so I just pray alone, like talking to God, not in words like how I hear them pray. Now I think it is due to the asperger. But I keep wondering, is it really because of asperger? Can anyone of you pray out loud?
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To pray a little like Jesus did means (my view) to read the four gospels of the New Testament of the Bible (simplified). Jesus prayed a prayer called the "Our Father" as a kind of model prayer. God bless us, everyone - is an example of a four word prayer. Without being too technical, I personally feel some persons have difficulty praying because the words they whisper, think, or speak do not automatically translate into mental images in the brain/mind. In my view, prayers of some persons tend to trigger (normal) imaginations in their brains/minds. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (KJV - Heb 1:1). Faith is the substance (blueprint of a 3 bedroom, 2 bath new home to be built) of things hoped for (buildout of the 3 bedroom, 2 bath new home which one can enter using a key to the front door and live there with one's family for many years). Faith/blueprint/idea vs Substance/actual home. Principle is : Ideas manifest/ideas tend to turn into reality over time/thoughts are things/thoughts tend to become things over time.