Mr. T Shares the Power of Simple Prayers: Doesn’t ‘Have to Be All Elaborate’
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Laurence Tureaud, AKA Mr. T, is sharing why you should call out to God, even if you don’t know what to say.
“It is a short, sweet, snappy prayer,” he said on an episode of PRAISE. “You’re acknowledging God. You’re just saying, ‘Help me Jesus. Save me Jesus.’”
“It don’t have to be all elaborate and all that stuff and formal or whatnot. God wants to hear it from you. You know, it’s your emotion. Say, ‘Help me, Jesus. I want to change. Help me, and you gotta be sincere with it.”
The A-TEAM actor believes most people can’t wrap their heads around the fact that God already knows the desires of their heart and what they’re thinking.
“They think they can play games with God. God knows your heart. He’s waiting on you to come to him,” the 72-year-old explained. “Humble yourself.”
Mr. T shared his own daily prayer habits with Beliefnet.
“I get up every morning and say, ‘Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you,'” he said. “‘When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name, I pray.'”
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Mr. T was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma in 1995 and went through several chemotherapy treatments. Throughout his trial with cancer, he says he found hope through his “faith in God.”
“It was a test of my faith,” he told PEOPLE. “I’m very spiritual. In the Book of Job, he was challenged [but he] kept believing in God and that’s the message I try to tell other people. Just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked… that doesn’t mean things are not going to happen to you.”
“I had to practice what I preached,” he said. “I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto — I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto. I was diagnosed with cancer — I tell people you don’t have to commit suicide. We’ve got good medicine now. I want people to draw strength from me.”
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