| Did you know that you were born with your own | | | | your prayers enhanced. |
| personal secret closet? | | | | In Christianity the prayer shawl is blessed by the |
| We discover the secret closet when we accept | | | | clergy and worn as a blessed cloth for healing and |
| the Lord into our life. Jesus said in Matthew 6:6 | | | | blessings. More and more Christians are embracing |
| But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy | | | | the prayer shawl as a special covering and a form |
| closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to | | | | of entering their closet during prayer time. |
| thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father | | | | Jesus wanted us to know that we have a place |
| which seeth in secret shall reward thee KJV. What | | | | to seek the Father in prayer. He didn't say go to |
| is a closet? Let's see what Webster dictionary has | | | | the church house, or the synagogue, he said to |
| to say about the word closet. Closet is defined as | | | | go into thy closet which mean your closet not |
| a place of retreat or privacy. When we go into | | | | your moms or grandmas. And when you enter |
| prayer or deep meditation Jesus has instructed us | | | | the closet shut the door forget about what is |
| to retreat into the hidden place of our heart and | | | | outside the door leaving it behind you and then |
| mind to commune with the Father in privacy, and | | | | pray to the Father. If you leave the closet door |
| that he would reward us openly. | | | | opened, distraction and confusion will enter |
| In Judaism the tallit (also spelled tallis or talith) is a | | | | preventing your ability to concentrate on what |
| shawl worn to create a sense of personal space | | | | you went into the closet to do. |
| during prayer - the name comes from two | | | | In closing, remember that you have a secret |
| Hebrew words: TAL meaning tent and ITH | | | | closet and when you enter the closet, shut the |
| meaning little. Thus, you have an etymology of | | | | door behind you and then begin to pray to the |
| LITTLE TENT. By wrapping yourself in the prayer | | | | Father in secret and he will reward you openly. To |
| shawl and covering your head with it you have | | | | learn more about the prayer shawl read Talit ha |
| the sense of being in a closet and the direction of | | | | Cumi: The Secrets of the Prayer Shawl. |