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(1 Thess. 1, 6–10; Luke 11, 1–10) The Lord gave a common prayer for everyone, combining in it all our needs, spiritual and physical, internal and external, eternal and temporary. But since in one prayer it is impossible to combine everything that you have to pray to God for in life, then, after the general prayer, a rule is given for the case of private petitions for something: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you” (Luke 11:9). This is how it is done in the Church of God: Christians all pray in common for common needs, but each individual privately lays out his needs and wants before the Lord. We pray in general in churches according to the established rites, which are nothing more than the Lord’s Prayer explained and presented in different forms, and privately, at home, everyone asks the Lord for his own thing as best he can. And in church you can pray about your own, and at home you can pray about your own, and at home you can pray with common prayer. We only need to take care of one thing, so that when we stand in prayer, whether at home or in church, we have real prayer in our souls, a real conversion and ascension of our mind and heart to God. If anyone can do it, let him do it. Don't stand like a statue and don't mutter prayers like a wound up machine playing songs. No matter how much you stand there and no matter how much you mutter, you have no prayer when your mind wanders and your heart is full of vain feelings. If you are standing in prayer and have become accustomed to it, what does it cost you to attract both your mind and your heart here? And draw them in, even if they become stubborn. Then a real prayer will be composed and will attract the mercy of God and God’s promise to prayer: ask and it will be given, it will be fulfilled. It is often not given because there is no petition, but only a pleading position. You might be interested in: