69. Teach Us to Pray
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One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of
his disciples said to him, “LORD, teach us to pray, just as John taught his
disciples.”
Luke 11:1D
ID you ever picture yourself walking through the Galilean
countryside with Jesus and his disciples, hanging on every
word he taught? Amazed at his miraculous healing? Touched by his
powerful love? And among all of those things that impressed you the
most about the Master, did you ever imagine that his prayer life
would be close to the top of the list?
I believe that as we observe the Lord’s habitual dependence on his
Father as revealed in Scripture, his daily reliance on prayer, we will
find a growing hunger in ourselves for a deeper relationship with
God in our own spirits. Just as Jesus stole away into the quiet hours
of the morning to be alone with his Father, something in our hearts
will be incredibly moved to do the same.
Though we may have had some sort of prayer life up to this time,
just being with Jesus will cause us to hunger for something more. We