[Discoveries] 08-26-07 Teach us to pray

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/*... teach us to pray ... -- Luke 11:1*/

Real prayer requires two things:
1. The real God
2. The real you

One night a couple years ago, I was telling my then 9-year-old son that 
if we really knew God - if we went to heaven and saw Him and experienced 
Him in all His glory, nothing would ever frighten us again. No one could 
threaten or do anything to us that would ever scare us, no matter how 
mean or cruel they might be. I say that because connecting with the real 
God is more than just connecting with the theologically correct God 
(although that, too, is important). We seek after the God who is there.

Pretense and performance never work in the presence of God. He knows us. 
So we must make the journey of honesty and courage and admit to God (and 
to ourselves) who we really are and what is really going on inside.

The good news is this: The real God plus the real you equals real 
change. Jesus touched the leper and made him clean.

One of the outcomes of encountering God in prayer is love. We love 
because He first loved us. Another is wisdom. Another is transformation. 
One day, I was praying for a ministry that was experiencing some 
problems. As I went to pray, I felt God speak to me and say, "Don't pray 
for ministries. Pray for people." That was an important lesson for me. 
Ministries are temporary. People are eternal.

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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