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- Title: Prayer
- Author : Bruce Zachary
- Release Date : January 30, 2015
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 9373 KB
Description
As the disciples watched Jesus pray, they saw intimate communication with God. Who wouldn't want to speak with God as Jesus did? So the disciples urgently asked Jesus to teach them to pray. There is no record of them asking Jesus to teach them to preach, teach, or evangelize. But they wanted to learn to speak with God as Jesus did. In response to their request, Jesus gave them a model prayer, "Our Father." We need to learn how to pray and who better to teach us than Jesus? The disciples were devout men versed in the prayers of the Hebrews, but their experience with Jesus impressed upon them a desire to go deeper in their communication with God. Have you ever wanted to go deeper? The goal of this study is to encourage you to go deeper in your relationship with God through prayer.
Failing to pray to the true and living God is just as futile as praying fervently to a false God. Nearly everyone prays to some degree to some perceived God, yet relatively few find fulfillment, satisfaction, and transformation. The problem is that we often approach prayer as a means to get something good or avoid a bad consequence rather than develop an intimate relationship with God.
Relationships require time. Intimate relationships are fashioned through time together. If we want healthy relationships with our spouse, our kids, our friends, or our God, we need to spend time with them. The obstacle is that no one seems to have enough time. Our priorities are reflected by our allocation of this precious resource... time. We generally believe that we don't have time to pray. We must take time away from other valuable areas and devote that time to develop a life-transforming, intimate relationship with God through prayer.
Oswald Chambers observed, "Prayer is the vital breath of Christians. Not the thing that makes us alive, but evidence we are alive." What would happen it no one prayer? Would the world be different? Would events and circumstances be changed? Would the hearts of people be impacted? Our responses to these inquiries may reflect our attitude about the effectiveness of prayer.
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