Tuesday 29 October 2024
RAYING WITH A FEATHER
Good Morning!!!
PRAYING WITH A FEATHER
Around the Year with Emmet Fox
October 29
Years ago,
many devoted preachers and Sunday School teachers
were fond of telling people to "pray hard."
Well-meaning as this advice was, it was mistaken.
I often tell people to pray "soft,"
which, of course, means gently.
I do this because I know
that the more quietly and gently, we pray,
the better results we get.
In prayer, as in many other activities,
effort defeats itself.
More than once I have said to my congregation,
"Pray with a feather-not with a pickax."
Always pray gently,
and especially if you have a good deal of fear,
or if your difficulty seems to be a very important one.
“For thou, Lord, art good,
and ready to forgive;
and plenteous in mercy
unto all them that call upon thee”
Psalm 86:5
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