"And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth." (Luke 11:1-2)
The disciples observed him slipping off alone to pray all the time. They saw firsthand when Jesus prayed, five loaves and two fish fed thousands! They must have thought, "I wish I could pray like that!" They asked him, "Teach us to pray."
Jesus then gave them a model to follow in prayer. "Our Father which art in heaven..." The prerequisite to prayer is relationship. Until we know God as our "Daddy" we can't pray as we ought. If we only knew the heart of our heavenly Father it would radically change the way we pray! And we don't really know his heart until we pray. Prayer is such a privilege. A peek into the depths of God's heart. We come to really know God through prayer. Oh, why don't we sit at his feet more often than we do?
Two days ago, I received a message from a high school student. She had attended The Gate a couple of weeks ago and God really moved in her life. She told me she was amazed at how much God had changed her over the past couple of weeks and she ended her message with this sentence...
"I never really realized who he was until he answered my prayers."
I don't know the details of her story, but I know this girl experienced God in a deeper way than ever before in her life... through prayer.
"Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God." - Andrew Murray
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