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- No, you don’t have to close your eyes or bow your head when you pray and there’s nothing in the Bible that requires these actions. People typically do shut their eyes or bow their heads mainly to avoid distractions during prayer and as a sign of reverence or humbleness.
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Oct 17, 2021 · What Does the Bible Say? Scripture never tells us to do any of these three physical acts before we pray. When Jesus’s disciples asked them to teach them how the pray, he didn’t begin by saying to first fold your hands, close your eyes, and bow your heads ( Luke 11:1-4 ).
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May 2, 2021 · No one is obliged to close their eyes during prayer. It is not so much a tradition as much as it is a religious custom. In the Bible, there are descriptions of prayers made standing, sitting, kneeling or with arms raised, yet there aren't any verses that insist the eyelids shut during prayer.
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The fact is it absolutely isa good way to pray for a few reasons. It helps us block out external distractions, it helps us focus on the task at hand, it can help us be more reverent as opposed to casual. It can fight any anxietywe are feeling and calm us down (especially if we take deep, controlled breaths), and it can help increase the enjoyment a...
As the ESV Study Bible notes, this head-up, eyes-open position of prayer seemed to be customary for Jesus (we also see it clearly in Mark 7:34). This is the same impression we get when Jesus told his disciples to "rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation” in Luke 22:46. We can also see this posture exemplified in Psalm 123:1when the Psa...
Studying Jesus's prayers throughout the gospels gives us the clearest ways that we can talk to our heavenly Father. Jesus’ model of prayer in Matthew 6(often called "The Lord's Prayer) gives us simple language and structure for our prayers, and the prayers of the saints throughout Scripture give us other models to borrow from. But not only can we l...
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Aug 19, 2023 · But the question is, “As children of God, should we necessarily close our eyes when praying?” You may say “yes,” and another person reading this now may say “no.” None of them is wrong because there’s no particular Bible verse that condemns closing or opening the eyes during prayer.
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Mar 18, 2019 · The truth is that I can find no place in scripture that tells me I must close my eyes when I pray. There might be some good practical reasons for doing it at times, but not biblical reasons. I think I can make the case for bowing my head.
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May 7, 2008 · I’ve done some looking around and it doesn’t appear in the bible anywhere that we should be closing our eyes. I find that when I close my eyes i start to fall asleep, so i don’t. If you know of a verse that I’ve missed let me know. What does the bible say about prayer then? Matthew 6:5-8
6 When you pray, you should go into your [private; inner] room and close the door and pray to your Father ·who cannot be seen [or who is in that secret place; or secretly; in private]. Your Father can see what is done in ·secret [private], and he will reward you.