POLL: Can as many Christians as possible answer this please?

Question

Short answers are sufficient. This is my third try already ... I want to get an idea of what is the norm in Christian prayer, what most people do.

Some weeks ago in church I realized an elder praying to Jesus and yet shortly after it he said something like "you are our father". I found that strange.

So several questions ...

1) When you pray to God (Dear God ... ) do you believe you pray to the father and to Jesus at the same time?

2) When you address Jesus (Dear Jesus ...) do you address the father at the same time?

3) When you pray to the father (Dear father ...) do you mean the father plus Jesus?

4) When you pray with words like "Lord" and "Saviour", who do you mean, the father, Jesus, or both at the same time?

5) Do you ever pray to "the trinity", explicitely meaning the father, son and Holy spirit?

thx.

Answer 1

Number five is the correct answer.  Every prayer addressed to any person of the Trinity is addressed to and heard by the entire.

Answer 2

Yes, just pray to all 3 separately by name as if I was saying, Mark, James, John as an example.

Answer 3

1) i pray to God

2)i pray to Jesus

3)Father is God , Jesus is the son of God and God is father to us all.

4)Lord is God and Saviour is Jesus

5)yes i do pray to all. The holy spirit is all in our hearts..

God Bless You!

Answer 4

I use all the names (God, Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Lord) interchangeably.  I believe in the Trinity, and so no matter what word I use, I am still praying to the same person/persons.  They are one in the same, or parts of a whole to me.

Answer 5

1.  Yes.  The Lord and the Father are one God.

2.  Yes.  They are interchangable in prayer.

3.  Yes.  We pray to the Father in Jesus name.

4.  Both at the same time.

5.  No.  I pray to Jesus and the Father.

It will be very confusing if you are not a practicing Christian with a prayer closet.  

Answer 6

I pray to God alone.

Answer 7

I guess I would fall under numbers 1 & 5.

@Whoareyou: best sounding answer, so far.

Answer 8

We know GOD in three dispensation, the old testament as the Father than later after the cross as the Holy Spirit, but the only name given to man was JESUS

Matthew 28:19

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:(KJV)  but these are titles not the name

(a) Jesus = "Savior". The Name "Jesus" is from Greek "Iesous" (Strongs #2424), from the Hebrew word "Yehowshuwa" (Strongs #3091) - meaning "Jehovah-saved".

Isaiah 28:10

For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little: John 1:1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God

Isaiah 44:6

Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and beside me [there is] no God.(KJV)Isaiah 44:8

Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared [it]? ye [are] even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, [there is] no God; I know not [any].(KJV)

John 8:19

Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also

John 8:58

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am

John 6:62 [What] and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name

John 10:25

Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.(KJV)

John 10:26

But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.(KJV)

John 10:27

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:(KJV)

John 10:28

And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand.(KJV)

John 10:29

My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's hand.(KJV)

John 10:30

I and [my] Father are one.(KJV)

Acts 2:38

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.(KJV)

Acts 8:12

But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.(KJV)

Acts 8:15

Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:(KJV)

Acts 8:16

(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)(KJV)

Acts 19:5

When they heard [this], they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.(KJV)

Acts 19:6

And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.(KJV)

Answer 9

1) Yes

2) Yes

3) Yes

4) Specifically Jesus (as "Lord and Savior") but any prayer is also directed to the Father as well

5) When I pray, I do not usually mention all three of them in the address, but I do believe in all three.  

Answer 10

I pray to my Father in Jesus' name, as Jesus instructed.

Answer 11

They all hear me the same since they are one. So I would say the Trinity.

Answer 12

when u pray to god or jesus, u r praying to the trinity which is the same person so all of them listen to you. i think u r confuse about the trinity they r the same person they just do 3 different things that made up god. for ex . your body you have many parts but when someone is touching ur hands he is touching ur body not just ur hands. get it? if u have any question email me at [e-mail]

Answer 13

I usually pray to either God or Jesus, not both. I mean Jesus by Savior and one of the two by Lord. I don't pray to the trinity.

Answer 14

1. Yes

2. No. I don't know why.. but I just speak to Jesus. But Jesus is God anyway.

3. Yes

4. God. Jesus is my father.

Answer 15

No, most Christians pray the Our Father understanding we are directing that prayer to Jesus Christ our Savior.

That`s why Christ said if you`ve seen him you`ve seen the Father.

Answer 16

Both at once;

The trinity is just three seperate roles of God,

God the father, creator

God the son, redeemer

God the holy spirit, spiritual guide to believing christians

Answer 17

1) Yes;

2) No, but he gets it;

3) No, but he gets it, too;

4) Usually, G-d the Father is meant as "Lord"; Jesus as "Savior";

5) G-d is the Trinity, so Yes.