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Teach Us How to Pray

by Dreamer on Feb.20, 2009, under Truth

prayerIt was said that one day, one of Jesus’ disciples came up to Him and said, “Lord, teach us to pray.”

This statement is the starting point for anyone who wishes to touch the world through prayer. We have been taught many wonderful truths about prayer in our churches, cell groups, Bible Schools and seminaries yet our people still don’t pray; our people still find it hard to mumble even a simple thank you to God simply because we have started on the wrong foot. We have chosen to start our prayer journey on grandiose statements about what prayer can do rather than on a desire to say, “Lord, teach us to pray.” We often tell people that God answers prayer or all things are possible through prayer.

The result is what we see on our churches today: prayer on pursed lips, empty pews during prayer meetings and believers who feel drowsy on a simple mention of the word prayer. Believers are dazzled more by what we say prayer can do- heal the sick, raise the dead, move mountains and so on than by what it will actually bring them eternally. (continue reading…)

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