Thoughts on Prayer

As quoted in the CCC-2566 – “Man is in need of God”, Due to the sin of our first parents Adam and Eve, Man lost his perfect communion with God. As the world tells us that we don’t need God in our lives or like sometimes we hide from him, He in his infinite love for us as quoted in the Catechism, “calls each person to that mysterious encounter know as prayer”.
(CCC-2567)

Prayer is the “tool” that allows us to communicate with him, through prayer is how we ask God for his help and everything else, as quoted in the Catechism “prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good thing from God. (CCC-2590)

Prayer is use throughout salvation history. Noah, Abraham, Moses, all the Prophets used prayer to communicate to Him. There are many examples of prayer in the bible, but one that I like in particular is in the book of Exodus, Chapter 17, and verse 10…

“So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.”