How do I pray?
Prayer, very simply, is talking with God. Obviously, there’s more to it, but the basic idea is that we will have regular, meaningful conversation with anyone who we consider a significant relationship. Our relationship with God should fall in that category.
Does God Answer Our Prayers?
How to pray? What does it take for God to answer prayers?
Have you ever known someone who really trusts God? When I was an atheist, I had a good friend who prayed often. She would tell me every week about something she was trusting God to take care of. And every week I would see God do something unusual to answer her prayer. Do you know how difficult it is for an atheist to observe this week after week? After a while, “coincidence” begins to sound like a very weak argument.
Teach Me to Pray: Devotions From Time of Grace
“Teach us to pray,” one of Jesus’ disciples asked him one day (Luke 11:1). Now–it wasn’t that they were unfamiliar with the concept of sending speech or thoughts up to God in heaven. Their parents had surely taught them prayers in their homes when they were children. Each Sabbath they would light their candles and pray. Each Passover they would eat the lamb, hear again the story of God’s miraculous redemption of his people, and thank him for his mighty acts on their behalf.
They were regulars at synagogue worship and knew the temple rituals. But when they saw how much Jesus got out of his prayer time, when they saw how often and how intensely he spoke with his Father, they knew they were missing something important. They wanted their prayer life to do for them what it obviously did for Jesus.
Why did he draw so much strength from that time? Why was he always so refreshed? How could they tap into that heavenly comfort and energy?