Author and Portland pastor Tyler Staton, the author of a new book, reveals the importance of bringing true emotions — anger, sadness and other honest feelings — to God in prayer and faith.
There's a better way to approach it, he revealed."If you think of the ways and names by which God is described in Scripture, he is our father, friend, comforter and advocate," said Staton.Most people first encounter prayer by"God's endgame is to reunite, in unbroken intimacy, with all people."WHAT ARE 'ANGEL NUMBERS' AND WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SEEING THEM?
"The biblical story is that through the consequences of sin, a seam was ripped through that intimacy." Staton said he believes that bringing conflicting thoughts, emotions and even anger to God in prayer leads to a deeper relationship with him. "And that has been most profoundly preserved in the church through the monastic tradition," he said, referring to the first half of his book’s title,"Praying Like Monks."
Station also said,"And he's always going beyond your comfort zone … He's going to the lost and the broken and the poor and the forgotten and the silenced and the marginalized." There are two ways God seems to answer prayer, said Staton.
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