Did you pray for health, even if you knew that only in the new system your health would get better...
Did you pray for a bible study?
Did you pray not to be tempted by the debil?
What did you pray for when you were a JW?
by JH 21 Replies latest jw friends
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Beachbender
I am very sad to say that I didn`t pray much on my own.
Only at meetings and meals and before FS. Of course I was
a young brainwashed teenage girl at the time and didn`t think
along those lines. Very sad!
But I pray often now, for strength to get through tough times my family
faces. I pray for God to watch over my son and husband. I talk to God about
how much I miss my Dad and Father-n-law since their deaths,two wonderful men.
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ColdRedRain
My prayers usually went like this: "Jehovah, please give me a million dollars and a fridge with a padlock and, heh, oh, yeah, huge pectoral muscles."
I'm destitute and i'm becomming flabby. God doesn't exist.
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candidlynuts
a friend.. i spent so many lonely years without a close friend.. it was seriously killing me.. now in the " world' i have true companions that i love with all my heart.
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frankiespeakin
Our father who fart in heaven,
Is "Hallowed" be thine name???
Let thine kindom crumb,
Let thine willed be done,
On earth and don't forget heaven.
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Country_Woman
for world peace
for forgiving my sin
for health - for keeping safe the ones I love -
In fact I still do ......
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Incense_and_Peppermints
at every meal (even in restaurants), meeting, studying, going out in service...i was constantly praying. i prayed for protection from Satan and temptation, and to be a better person than the day before. too bad all that faith, devotion and self-denial was wasted on a lie...
Before....................Afterp.s. i don't pray at all now. for any reason.
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CoonDawg
In my more emotional periods, I prayed to be forgiven for not living up to the impssible standards. Only a few of my prayers were heartfelt and those were to be counted worthy of being around god's real servants. I pretty much always felt inadequate and really had esteem issues.
Finally, my prayers were ritualistic and very routine. They got to where they meant nothing to me...and that was way before I stopped going to the hall. My public prayers sounded good, but were also repetative. Most recently, my prayers were for my wife's benifit over a meal...but only out of respect for her. Once she realized this, she hasn't asked me to pray aloud since. Kind of a relief actually.
Ern
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kwintestal
As a kid I prayed all my loved ones would die before Armageddon.
Kwin
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frankiespeakin
Kwin,
I prayed for that too. I prayed for his name to be exulted,,to help me find my car keys,,let me win some drawing that wasn't condemed as gambling,,help me to stop thinking about sex,,, I never prayed for god to bless the governing body I really didn't like them that much.
Most of my prayer were repetitious evolveing very slowly in time,,my wife used to get after me for that in my prayers,, she already knew the words before i said them. I really hated prayer and often put my mind on automatic pilot as I prayed. Borrrrrrrrrrinnnnnnnggggg