What is prayer?
I recently preached at another local church, and a member of the congregation at that place is running a project to encourage prayer. He has recorded a range of leaders talking nigh prayer, and incorporated this into a website which includes a course on prayer making use of Richard Foster's volumePrayer: finding the heart'due south true habitation.
Discover below my video, which lasts seven minutes. For me, prayer is about inbound into and dwelling in God'south presence, which on the one hand means rest and refreshment ('Our hearts are restless until we detect our residual in thee', Augustine), but also means repentance and longing—repentance because we fall then far curt of God'south perfection, and longing to run across God's broken globe transformed by his kingdom.
The two halves of the Lord's prayer match these concerns. As we enter our Father's presence, we long to encounter his name honoured, his volition washed and his kingdom come. But we know our own inadequacies, so also need his protection from evil, defence confronting temptation, and the provision of our daily bread 'for the coming twenty-four hour period'.
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