Tuesday, April 28, 2026
“For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,…” (Ephesians 3:14 KJV).
Does today’s Scripture insinuate the “proper posture of prayer” is kneeling?
Friend, if you want to kneel to pray, raise your hands to pray, bow your head to pray, or close your eyes to pray, that is your business, but do not expect God to smile upon you more or give you what you want simply because of such positions or movements. Also, keep this in mind: it does not make you “more spiritual” or “better” than someone who does not kneel to pray, who does not raise their hands to pray, who does not bow their head to pray, and who does not close their eyes to pray. Do not be sucked into the trap of formalism. Posture can be—and has been—faked in religion for thousands of years. Kneeling does not automatically equate to humility or spirituality, just as standing does not necessarily mean arrogance or worldliness.
Whether you get down on your knees, or lift your hands, or bow your head, or close your eyes… it makes no difference to God when you pray. We should pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17)—so that means prayer is far more than physical posture, for it is absolutely impossible to always have eyes closed, always have heads bowed, always have hands up, and always have knees down. How your outward body is positioned in prayer is totally irrelevant. What matters is the inner man. Is faith or unbelief guiding you? Is it done in Bible understanding or Bible ignorance?
Pour out your soul before the LORD, as Hannah did in 1 Samuel 1:15, talk to Him in light of what He told you in His rightly divided Word. If the Word of Christ dwells in us richly in all wisdom (Colossians 3:16), then pouring out our heart before the LORD will reinforce in our minds what He has said to us. This is what is pleasing to Him. If we do not know His words to us, then we had better get over to Romans to Philemon and start reading and believing, so we can drive out the superstition, foolishness, carnality, childishness, and darkness that so easily beset us during prayer-time!
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