Thursday, September 15, 2005

Prayer

Last night at RUF, Doug was gone because he's at a conference in Montana. Mike Biggs, our CTK pastor, spoke to us - not out of Ephesians like we had been, but from Luke. Coincidentally, it was a passage from Luke that I had read several times lately because of our bible study. It was Luke 11:1-14. The topic was prayer.

Now, I've always heard people talk about "effective prayer" but never really understood what that meant. I thought that all prayer was the same. But after examining the example prayer, the Lord's prayer, one can see that prayer is based on requests. I suppose that is already somewhat obvious, but this passage changed my view of it.

Verses 5-8 gives a beautiful illustration.

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