Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.
The spirit is willing, but the body is weak. Mark 14:37
Prayer is a move in a person’s spirit, through the Spirit to the presence of God.
Prayer is a lifting of a person’s soul—mind, emotion—to God our Father.
Prayer is a posture of a person’s body as spirit and soul go before God.
The whole person must pray.
If your lips are moving, but your heart is not sincerely seeking Christ’s very presence—then what is the point, is that only noise? If I lift up prayers of supplication, possibly a cliché of thanksgiving or platitude of adoration, yet my body does not reflect humility before the Almighty—is that a mere demand in pride?
E. M. Bounds writes in work, Essentials of Prayer, the following:
“PRAYER has to do with the entire man. Prayer takes in man in his whole being, mind, soul and body. It takes the whole man to pray, and prayer affects the entire man in its gracious results. … Where there is earnest and faithful praying the body always takes on the form most suited to the state of the soul at the time. The body, that far, joins the soul in praying.”
Are you praying in full or only partially? Just a thought…
Blessings,
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