Heatblast: If a christian would come with another bible verse on why they should pray out loud, I won't be suprised cause the bible is full of contradictions

Jobig: Poster you need deliverance,never question things of God cos you are in no position to ask that questions.

Atheist:-D:
Why does anyone need to pray loudly or with emotion? Can the omnipotent God not hear you or know your minds desires?

Screaming and shouting like possessed ppl is just an unfortunate by product of certain branches of xtianity. It is a psychological means to shake ppl up mentally. Once you pray aggressively you feel good about yourself. Nothing to do with the spiritual. Have you seen how ppl speak in tongues too . You would expect half the ppl there to be sectioned instantly under the mental health act.

And why scream and shout commands at God? Some pray with the ferocity as if they would physically assault God if they ever met. That their prayers must be answered by fire by force!!!!!

The current practices in xtianity are breeding a new group of schizophrenics and psychologicaly impaired ppl.

ibukun obi: i am a jehovah's witnesses, over one hundred years ago, we have been liberated from that bondage of noisy prayer pattern, we live quetly and demonds dont come to our place of worships, and we dont cast out demonds that does not exists.
Matt 6 :2-9 is the standard MODEL Prayer pattern for all christians
Any other ideas different from this is expanded because some people want to use that method to confuse the poor just for their own gain (financial gain), you all know someone has to misinterprete the bible just to create new job for himself.
Let us be careful, satan is at work, he knows pple has problems not problem, so he uses prayer warriors that calls themselves modern days christians today to confuse people today in the name of night vigil. Beware of angels of darkness

Heatblast: Tho I'm not a christian, this was a question that bothered me when I was. When I was little(in a pentecostal church), my sunday school teacher would was always insisting that she must hear us pray out loud(it suposedly made demons scared of us and made god hear our prayers faster)... They would also use this "a shut mouth is a shut destiny" to threaten us.

But to my suprise this verse contradicted their teachings
Mat 6:6: But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Today, you'll see so many xtians screaming and shouting all in the name of personal prayer

Even the so called praying in tounges is a contradiction to this verse
Mat 6:7: But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Today you'll see so many christians shouting:
ba ba ba ba.. Bo bo bo bo... Ray ray ray ray x100

And the last verse to prove my point;
Mat 6:8: Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Atheist:-D:
Why does anyone need to pray loudly or with emotion? Can the omnipotent God not hear you or know your minds desires?

Screaming and shouting like possessed ppl is just an unfortunate by product of certain branches of xtianity. It is a psychological means to shake ppl up mentally. Once you pray aggressively you feel good about yourself. Nothing to do with the spiritual. Have you seen how ppl speak in tongues too . You would expect half the ppl there to be sectioned instantly under the mental health act.

And why scream and shout commands at God? Some pray with the ferocity as if they would physically assault God if they ever met. That their prayers must be answered by fire by force!!!!!

The current practices in xtianity are breeding a new group of schizophrenics and psychologicaly impaired ppl.

Jobig: Poster you need deliverance,never question things of God cos you are in no position to ask that questions.

jedisco: Someone used an illustration to explain this to me sometime ago.

He said, "if you go to ask your dad about your school fees do you shout? I guess not. What about you being stung by a scorpion or bitten by a snake, how would you call you dad for help? I know it would be with screams.


Personally, I think scriptures asking us to pray quietly and not blabbing and repeating words hoping to be answered are trying to explain to us that if we are to speak loudly when praying, it should not be done just so other people will hear us, to show our prowess or because we think we would be answered faster. Rather it should come from within and we should be careful not to also unnecessarily disturb others.

If you go though the Bible you would see that alot of great prayers were just cries and weeping unto God with little or no words and yet God answered them.
Sometimes the burden may be so heavy that even words may not suffice.

Johnnny: This loud praying in the night habit made me remember an experience where I was living before moving to my present place.

There were these neighbours of mine (a lady & a guy) lives in the next building to mine, The lady is fond of praying very loudly in the middle of the night while you would hardly hear the voice of the husband in the background. Most neighbours had on occassions shouted from their rooms calling for some quietness to have some sleep after having a hectic working day, this lady did not change.

I even went a step further to write her a letter quoting the bible especially Mathew, so as to educate her more about praying. she prayed queitly for like three days and went back to her loud shouting. (I wrote her a letter because, I dont want her to be embarrassed if I go and knock her door to speak to her face to face).

My people, I was suprised one day when I felt something is unussual, then I remember that for like a week prior to that day, our nights have been quiet with only sounds of generator, so I asked my wife if the lady travelled or was sick or something. She then told me that the lady had a fight with another neighbour in the 3rd house and that one was calling her an Ogbanje and Witch. I didnt get how that had anything to do with her yelling during prayer, then I remembered that she is always shouting, "spirit of Ogbanje leave her alone in Jesus Name" "spirit of witches and Wizard will not come over her in Jesus Name". she has given out all the secrets of her life that is supposed to be between her and God to everybody in the community.

For like a year later, when I left, I used to hear sounds of praying from their room, but no more disturbances, yelling, shouting and tantrums. Where I am living now is even worst, next to a chuch. You can imagine what I am going thru daily with unending night vigils.

preshuzpearl: Sometimes hearing yourself pray increases faith that your prayers will be answered. how can u even bind and loose without shouting? You MUST shout... And clap your hands

dust144: Praying quietly is just the best, why will u be shouting telling God u just have sex with ur friends girl friend in the church and human beings are listening to u? They will pass jughement on you even bfore u finish shouting. God knows ur problem talk to him quietly, why will u shout to ur father to give u money? He will not answer u.

Heatblast: Tho I'm not a christian, this was a question that bothered me when I was. When I was little(in a pentecostal church), my sunday school teacher would was always insisting that she must hear us pray out loud(it suposedly made demons scared of us and made god hear our prayers faster)... They would also use this "a shut mouth is a shut destiny" to threaten us.

But to my suprise this verse contradicted their teachings
Mat 6:6: But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Today, you'll see so many xtians screaming and shouting all in the name of personal prayer

Even the so called praying in tounges is a contradiction to this verse
Mat 6:7: But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Today you'll see so many christians shouting:
ba ba ba ba.. Bo bo bo bo... Ray ray ray ray x100

And the last verse to prove my point;
Mat 6:8: Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.