“There are five elements to prayer:
praise, thanksgiving, confession, petition, and intersession.” Most people have no problem with the
last four elements but it is the first, praise, that they… we struggle with.
The reason this occurs is that praise is the only element that does not involve
self. The concept of praying to God to let him know how great he is, in other
words to adore/admire him. “Prayer is deep, quite possibly the deepest
decentering of self deep enough to begin dismantling or destructing that
burning preoccupation with myself”. In prayer one must enter a state of
humiliation to complete the first element of prayer. Once in this state one no longer has self in mind.
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