How to Pray with Someone
- Shidonna Raven
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Source: Reunion Church
February 5, 2021
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How to Pray with Someone
My dad was a minister, so growing up I experienced a behind the scenes look at almost every aspect of what it meant to pastor a church- except for praying with someone personally. It’s not as though my dad wasn’t praying with people. He certainly was. It’s just that I rarely saw my dad in those moments. They were, understandably, private in nature, so I didn’t have the same amount of exposure to those interactions. Consequently, when I went into ministry myself, I felt uncharacteristically out of my element when it came to praying with someone personally. Every other facet of doing ministry seemed like second nature to me. It was all very familiar. But not praying with someone. Those were uncharted waters. And that made me very uncomfortable. I felt unsure about what to say or how much to say and in truth I think I avoided those opportunities for quite some time. It’s not that people didn’t ask me to pray for them. They did. I simply said that I would be sure to do so and then moved the conversation along.
Can you relate? Have you ever found yourself in conversation with someone who clearly needed prayer, only to let the moment pass instead of taking advantage of the opportunity? It’s so much easier to offer our ‘thoughts and prayers’ rather than taking that uncomfortable step of asking, ‘Would it be alright for me to pray with you right now?’
“What if they say, ‘Yes!’? What then?” These are the worries that flood our minds in those moments. We fear we’ll look foolish, or that we’ll say something wrong.
Fortunately, there are no rules about how we are to go about praying for someone. The key is to remember that God is the one who brings about any change in a person’s life, not us, and He has assured us that His Spirit is at work in our hearts, even to the point of speaking words when our own fail us. There’s something significant that happens when we take hold of the moment and pray with someone- the grace of God has an open invitation to begin working in that person’s life and in ours as well.
If you want to take advantage of opportunities to pray with someone, here are a few pointers that have been of help to me.
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