Caroline - On Being Thankful
Enjoyed your post on "thankfulness to God", Caro. At BSF, we start each leader's meeting with group prayer (at the unearthly hour of 06.30 am Sat mornings - first one after summer hol's is tomorrow, spare us a thought - it will be 08.30 in NZ which is civilised time to be starting Saturdays!). It's slightly structured, in that it begins with a time of worship - praising God for who He is; then a time to thank God, both in general for being such a wonderful and marvellous Fellow to us all, but also specifically for answers to past prayer requests; and then we move into this week's petitions - all in the name of Jesus.
I think that's not a bad format for our prayer - praise, thanks, petitons. There are many sample prayers in scripture that more or less follow this pattern. There are some acronyms for prayer formats, which I can't recall just now. Someone may be able to help out? It's good to remember all the things we can be thankful for, but so often just take for granted.
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