Prayer

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Prayer


How many of you actually find prayer a delight or a joy? Let’s face it, for many of us prayer is still a duty. We are all so busy, it is hard to find the time to pray, and when we do, it can be boring and hard to focus. It can feel like we are talking to ourselves or reading a Christmas wish list to Santa in the sky. So, we make excuses – “I have young kids,” or “I have to go to work”, or whatever etc. And we feel a tinge of guilt. Then we just pick up our phone and scroll.

And yet… prayer is the portal to life with God – the life we all crave in the deepest part of our being, whether we identify it as a desire for God, or misidentify it as desire for something else. Thankfully, Jesus was full of wisdom on prayer.

In this series, we will be working through a four-stage progression in the life of prayer:

  1. Talking to God

  2. Talking with God

  3. Listening to God

  4. And being with God

We never mature beyond any of the four stages of prayer we are exploring in this Prayer Series, but the further we progress in prayer, the more we desire to speak to God, to listen to God, and to just be with God. Let us explore the life of prayer together!