I remember a pastor once saying that when praying--if you are having a particularly tough time in one area or another--to pray silently. Reason being that the enemy cannot read our thoughts and minds. Is there scriptural basis for this?

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~ Steven Bradford ~
Member Covenant Presbyterian, Chattanooga, TN

Well, we are to pray without ceasing.
Our prayers are to always be saturated with scripture. We are to pray scripture and use it as a means of speaking to God. Paul's prayers for the churches are great models. And also keeping our study of scripture in a prayerful mindset couls certainly be an aid in "rightly dividing the word of truth." However, over-spiritualizing and making our determination about what scripture means based on a feeling could be dangerous...

Are you asking if there is scriptural basis for the notion that "the enemy cannot read our thoughts and minds?" I don't know of anywhere in scripture that would validate that, but I am by no means an authority on the matter. I would like to know myself!

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Ashley H.
Member of Immanuel Presbyterian Church (PCA)
DeLand, FL
~Wife to Mike~
~All good which could be thought or desired is to be found in Jesus Christ alone. - John Calvin~