Prayer in the New Testament is presented as a positive command ( Colossians 4:2 1 Thessalonians 5:17).
The most common prayer among Christians is the " Lord's Prayer", which according to the gospel accounts (e.g. While praying, certain gestures usually accompany the prayers, including folding one's hands, bowing one's head, kneeling (often in the kneeler of a pew in corporate worship or in the kneeler of a prie-dieu in private worship), and prostration. Ĭhristian prayers are diverse: they can be completely spontaneous, or read entirely from a text, such as from a breviary, which contains the canonical hours that are said at fixed prayer times. Christian prayer is an important activity in Christianity, and there are several different forms used for this practice.