What’s Your Favourite Prayer Posture?
For me, it’s walking.
I just feel most prayerfully charged when I walking and praying.
Although it wasn’t the posture I started my prayer life with, it’s that which appeared to stick after having tried other postures overtime, as it seemed to be the most fitting and suitable for me while praying.
Perhaps it has something to do with the factor of sleep.
Sleep is perhaps the biggest threat to prayer.
The disciples of Christ missed out on the opportunity of a lifetime to pray with Jesus at the most crucial stage of His life and ministry on Earth because of sleep. Matthew 26:37-45
Though it was late at night, they ought to be praying at particular point in time, especially after Jesus asked them to watch with Him, but sleep made them miss out of that rare privilege.
That’s why it’s important not to fall asleep while praying, so that’s one area where walking helps me a lot, because it’s hard for me to fall asleep during prayer while the walking. Especially during midnight prayer when I need to be awake.
I noticed that once I stopped walking sometimes to rest a bit, and took up another posture, maybe kneeling down or sitting, no matter how I tried to shake my body to enable me remain awake, it’s almost impossible for me not to fall asleep after a while.
So although I still utilize other postures while praying, like sitting, kneeling, prostrating or bowing down, etc. my favourite prayer posture is walking.
God bless.
What’s Your Favourite Prayer Posture? – Religion – Nigeria (nairaland.com)