Types of prayer

This morning I was reading Luke 5. It's a chapter that has a couple of stories that many Christians would be familiar with. Given where my thoughts are at the moment, readers of this blog would not be surprised to hear that I was looking at the prayers in the chapter.

There were many ways that prayer occurred in this short passage of Scripture. First there was demanding prayer - "You can make me well". Then there was prayer in solitude, when Jesus went away to pray. Then there was prayer of faith in action when the friends brought the paralysed man to Jesus. Finally there was the prayer of submission and acceptance as Levi responded to Jesus and followed him.

No prayer type is right or wrong. It's just important we are praying to our God who loves us.