Prayer: A Speech On The Universal Call To Prayer

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Alright, welcome to our second night in our prayer series! Today we are going to talk a little bit about prayer as a weapon. A weapon against temptation, sin, Satan.... we have learned before that in this life we are in a battle, a spiritual battle, and we need to be prepared. We need to be armed to fight this good fight of faith, especially going into this new battleground: college.

First of all, there is something that we have to get straight, and that is that prayer is for everyone. God calls us all to prayer, because he calls and invites us all to a personal relationship with him. He knows us, but he wants us to know him and he wants us to know ourselves in him. We are his, shouldn’t we know the person who calls us his own? The Catechism of the Catholic Church calls this the “Universal Call to Prayer.” The fact is, that firstly, “man is in search of God.” (CCC 2566) We are all born with this desire …show more content…

He was the brother of Moses and he was a prophet, or a spokesman for God and for Moses. He lived his life sharing with everyone God’s words and helping people turn to Him. When Moses receives the Ten Commandments, the first one God gives to him is, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, you shall not have other gods besides me.” (Exodus 20:2-3) Keep this is mind for later. So a little while after the Ten Commandments are given to him, Moses has to go up the mountain to talk to God some more. Trusting his big brother Aaron, he put him in charge of the people while he was gone. While waiting for Moses to get back, the people got impatient. They had a lack of trust in Moses, and ultimately in God. These people were used to worshipping multiple Pagan Gods before Moses brought them out of the land of Egypt and told them about God, and without listening to his voice through Moses and Aaron, they resorted back to their old ways and asked Aaron to make a golden calf for them to

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