Jari Iivanainen's teaching for the prayer has many good points.
Few passages about that teaching:
Do you know, that in the way of prayer can be hindrances, which prevent us to pray trustfully and permanently? For even though we would have received Christ into our life and got to be saved, so the beginning of prayer, trustfulness and perseverance in it is not always so simply, but sometimes in the way of prayer can come many futile hindrances.
Sometimes as a reason can be simply, that we don’t understand our right position before God, through Jesus. For even though Christ should be our righteousness, and through him we can approach God, so we don’t understand or internalise properly this important basic matter. Instead of that, we can stare all the time at ourselves and our imperfection, and therefore we don’t expect, that God would answer just our prayer. We expect that he indeed answers other, "holier people’s" prayers, but we ourselves don’t have this kind of trustfulness on this area.
Still as a hindrance in prayer can be wrong teaching, in other words for instance such matters as the direction of prayer and how many times we should pray. For if we have got wrong teaching on these areas, it can takes us to the futile false paths or at least to paralyse the whole prayer. If we namely forget God, to whom we pray, to be in heaven, or we think always, that only one prayer time is sufficient, so is possible, that our prayer slackens. It changes then its form and is left only a word among other words, which at all is not purpose.
We are indeed going to concern this important matter on the next lines and also that, how it is important to pray permanently. The purpose is, that we would learn to pray trustfully and permanently, and we could remove futile hindrances out of the way of prayer. If like this really takes place, praying is certainly easier than former.
http://koti.phnet.fi/elohim/renewinprayerMay GBU . . . .
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