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Why Pray?
As stated earlier, prayer is about spending time with God, uniting
our hearts with His. It is our love for God and a desire to know
Him more that leads us to pray. J.I. Packer comments in his book
Knowing God, “Men (and women) who know their God are before
anything else people who pray, and the first point where their zeal
and energy for God’s glory come to expression is in their prayers.”
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While most Christians understand the basic truths about prayer, most
of us find great difficulty devoting time to it every day. It is true that
a close, personal walk with the Lord is impossible without daily quiet
time — a time of listening and speaking to our heavenly Father. None
of us would expect to maintain a good relationship with a wife or
husband or close friend if we never spoke to that person. How much
more important is it to seek to be near the One who made us and
whose will and work we desire to do?
Likewise, it is impossible for the body of Christ — the church — to
stay on course if we do not faithfully and regularly unite our
hearts and voices in prayer for the guidance of the Holy Spirit
in our decisions and our actions. We pray because Jesus told us to
pray. We pray because Jesus Himself prayed. We pray because it
changes us, and we pray because it brings about the will of God in
our family, church and in our society. That is why, during these
exciting days of Prestonwood, our Pastor is leading us to a new
level of commitment to prayer. Every member is being asked to
join in all the collective times of prayer with the entire body of
Christ, as well as in personal times of prayer.
You are being asked to pray, but you are also being asked to fast.
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