What kind of prayer did you say before you went to sleep? Who taught you how to pray it?
I remember praying "Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." Not a very nice prayer for a child to think about now that I look back on it. What do you mean, if I die before I wake!! I don't remember who taught that to me.
I then remember having to pray every night before I slept that God would forgive any sins I had committed that day, whether I had done them on purpose or not. I think chuch religion taught me that.
Then I read in Hebrews that we should not have a sin consciousness but a righteous consciousness. I'm not practicing sin because I'm not a sinner. If I sin, the Holy Spirit is there to immediately tell me about it and (if I'm thinking straight!) I immediately confess it and get back into right standing with God.
I'm probably gonna shock someone, but there are days that go by that I don't sin. AAAHHHHRRGGG! how can you say that!? Because I'm practicing love just like Jesus did. No, I'm not perfect and, yes there are days that I do miss the love mark. However, for the most part I'm thinking about how to please God and that keeps me righteous. I know some will say there is none righteous, but they are stuck in the Old Testament because in the New Testament it says that Jesus became sin with my sin so that I could become righteous with His righteousness. So now because of the great exchange that Jesus made I have a righteousness conscious.
Now I pray before sleeping that God will teach me in the night and sing to me. It's very peaceful.
2 comments:
I like praying "Our Father who art in Heaven ... Because it reminds my of who he is and what he will do for us when we put him first.
From Sue:
I remember that same prayer but i don't remember praying it a whole lot. I do remember praying that i would be forgiven every day. I think i watched the thief in the night movie and it scared me into thinking i had to pray for forgiveness all the time. God's word also says Be ye holy for I am holy. If it weren't possible to be holy God wouldn't have said that. I don't believe were perfect but we should be producing good fruit in our lives as we serve him.
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