So, when I know I’m alone in the house, and decide I need to pray about something, why do I instinctively whisper? What’s up with that? Can anyone imagine the author of Hebrews reasoning that We all had fathers of the flesh and only whispered to them. Shall we not only whisper to the Father of Spirits when we pray?
Makes no sense at all.
I’ve been told that the first Christians prayed in the Jewish manner…with hands raised, head turned upward, hands open to heaven, and out loud.
Perhaps its time we stole that posture back from the Charismatics!
I’ll never forget how amazed I was at the scene in The Apostle when Duvall was loudly praying upstairs in his mother’s home. And then I was amazed that I was so amazed!
I fail to see how this relates to your title. Praying with an uplifted voice need not be irreverent or flippant. In fact, I would think if one had an audience with the King, one would want to speak distinctly: it would be inappropriate, indeed irreverent, to mumble.