What is the best posture for prayer?

Full Question:

What is the best and proper posture for a good prayer? Does God answer the prayer more quickly on praying with such postures? What are its biblical basis and what are its other advantages, if any?

Answer:

There are lot of people, even lot of true Christians are in such type of errors due to false doctrines. I am so sad to hear these type of questions. Jesus Christ already told the reason for these things as, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God." I will try my best to help you deliver from these type of misunderstandings.

People can pray to God by placing their body on any postures. They can pray by sitting on a chair, on a bed, on the floor, laying on the bed or the floor, on their knees and so on. God will not answer any ones prayer by evaluating is posture. The fact is that God is looking to our heart to check our attitude, while we pray and He is also hearing what and how we pray. God will not answer our prayer any more quicker for the reason we prayed in some special posture. Many people think that prayer with suffering pain and humbling by being on postures like, on the knees, head on the floors, etc. are more acceptable in front of God. This is also a false concept.

Our God is not a God who answer our prayer like that. Human beings are those who accept external humbleness like that. No Human being can fool God by such type of external humbleness to fulfill the things inside. I know there are also people who humble themselves in their external body also due to their humbleness inside. I will never advice them to stop it. But I want all of them to understand the fact that there is nothing special to pray like that. Everyone who pray with a pure heart are equal in front of God.

According to me, the best posture for a good prayer should also be the most comfortable posture. The main reason behind it is, if a person is comfortable in the posture, he can surely pray for a long time without any distress. If he pray in some postures like on the knees, bowing down etc, he will surely get tired fast and will cause pain in the joints of the body. This will make his prayer shorter and he will also lose his concentration in prayer due to pain and so on. If you are praying in a comfortable position you can pray by involving in the presence of God with no problems as long as you can.

The only thing which bible shows as a good posture for praying is at 1 Timothy 2:8, as "In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy." We can also see peoples and even kings pray in the Old Testament by lifting their hands to heaven and this may be the reason for Paul to write it. I want everyone to listen to the most important thing which is to be free from anger and controversy, while praying. Still I won't prefer to pray by lifting our hands always, by knowing the fact that it will make the hands get tired faster and will cause to lose our concentration on praying.

May God bless all of you to pray with faith, concentration and goodness in heart so that God may hear your prayer by removing misunderstandings such as postures and so on. May He also bless you to focus Him completely, by a posture which is more comfortable for you.