How do we pray? Do we pray with
the same reverence that the disciples would have brought to their prayers? I don’t know about you, but I struggle with
it at times. I would argue that most of
us focus our prayer energy on winning God’s favor and getting him to do things
for us. The psalms teach us that we have
this backwards. The purpose of prayer is
not to question God, but to answer him. It is not to win his favor, but for him
to win our hearts. It is not to bend his
will to ours, but to bend ours to his.
Prayer is about coming to know Jesus and learning to live like him. Using Psalm 16 as our guide, this lesson
explores how we might rethink our prayers as a way to know our Lord.
Listen to Praying the Psalms: Learning to Pray
Lesson Plan
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