Lately I've been running on Faith. What else can a poor boy do?
Of course those are stolen Clapton lyrics
I read somewhere (i believe it was in one of Philip Yancey's books, I think "Prayer") that when you are running low on faith and can't come up with prayers of your own to use other peoples. People who have prayed while they were full of faith. It was said that it would help increase your faith and keep you going while you were having a low time.
So does "Borrowing" someone else faith work? Does using someone else's prayer facilitate your need? Think about it in Jesus' greatest time of need, while hanging on the cross he quoted Psalms. I mean do you not think he had plenty of his own words to use. But maybe using scripture was a better way of expressing himself.
As Ecclesiastes says there is nothing new under the sun, so if you have a need I am sure someone else has had the same need before. So if you can't find the exact words, use someone else's words that express what you are feeling. I found this website that is dedicated only to prayers http://www.worldprayers.org/
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There are a couple of stories in the Bible when someone else had to help the person get to Jesus or be healed by Jesus. I think that using someone else's prayer only enhances our prayer life and ultimately strenghtens our faith. Just one example is when Jesus teaches us to pray. He models prayer for us and then the "Lord's Prayer" is one of the first prayers most of us learn. I think he intended for us to use it so that we could grow stronger through it. Great thought in this one man. I love you and what you do for all of us. Keep up the good work and God Bless.
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