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Video№ 466

What is prayer really? A conversation with God.

What is prayer really? It’s not a request or a set of words, but a state of being. Learn why prayers go unanswered and how to hear the One who is already near.

Prayers

This speaks of God being within you, not somewhere far away in heaven. It speaks of Jesus Christ, through the Bible and through silence, calling you not to ask for more, but to dwell more deeply. It speaks of the Lord’s Prayer’s essence not in the repetition of words, but in returning home. Morning prayer and morning prayers in the spirit are attuning the heart to presence from the first minutes of the day.

You’ll hear what Orthodox prayer is like breathing, what prayer in church is like silence among your own, what protective prayer and powerful prayer are—not as a spell, but as a state of inner peace. And what prayer for well-being is—not as a request for external benefits, but as the well-being of being heard.