Emotionally Healthy Discipleship and Contemplative Prayer

In this video i am going to teach about Contemplative Prayer which i learned from Emotionally Healthy Discipleship with Pete Scazzero. I worked with Pete Scazzero for 5.5 years. This can also be called contemplative prayer meditation. This way of praying in very counter cultural to our fast paced modern way of living. This will not be like the typical type of prayer you see in churches these days. Contemplative prayer is one which uses silence and solitude. You don’t do a lot of talking. A matter of fact sometimes I don’t say anything at all. Prayer is a two way conversation. And for too many years I was having a one way conversation and doing all the talking. I was having a one way conversation with God. And to make matters worse i was praying like Jesus worked for me and he was my personal assistant. Soren Kierkegaard said "A man prayed and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quite until in the end he realized that prayer is listening". A majority of times prayer in not meant to change God but for God to change us. Especially in everyday life and matters of Guidance. Let us not forget the great task of listening to God, listening to the Holy Spirit while praying. Jesus taught the concept on not praying long prayers for many words (Matthew 6).