Pray Aloud Find a time and place where you can be alone and pray out loud. When you pray vocally, it feels so much more personal and meaningful. It’s easier to avoid vain repetitions and to prevent your mind from wandering. It’s really like a conversation with Heavenly Father.

Is it OK to pray for the same thing over and over?

Ask God for what you want as much as it occupies your mind, because it’s those nagging, horrible, conflicting, heartbreaking needs that linger in your mind beyond one quick begging session. If you’re stuck in a prayer loop, stay in it as long as you need to. God understands. He’s even better than that judge or friend.

Can you pray too much?

Prayer is often our last resort, the final step in a hopeless situation. We refer to it with such phrases as “he doesn’t have a prayer,” or “there is nothing left to do but pray.” But it is perhaps the most important aspect of our human condition.

Do you not toil or spin?

they toil not, neither do they spin: The World English Bible translates the passage as: Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.

What does the Bible say about repetitive prayer?

Repetitive prayer in the sense of chanting or speaking some sort of magical incantation or mantra is spoken against in the Bible. Jesus told His followers, “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Do not use vain repetition?

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. “And when praying, do not use needless repetitions as the Gentiles do, for they expect to be listened to because of their multitude of words.

Do not pray in repetition?

“And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words. King James Bible . But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

What are vain repetitions?

Vain repetitions is routine prayers, just to fill in the gap/time. Like chanting a phrase many times. Reading a prayer/passage a couple of times e.g 3times, 7times. Saying the same thing at designated times e.g every 12o’clock, or 3times a day etc. Some do it in an attempt to speak in tongues, deceiving themselves.