The Work of Prayer
“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.” (Luke 11:9-10, NASB) Prayer is a topic that has been on my mind for some time now. I believe God has given me a burden to pray for many people including my wife, my mother, my brothers and my sister and their families, my brothers and sisters in Christ in Celebrate Recovery and church, colleagues at work, the students I teach, friends who do not know the Lord, and the list goes on and on. Admittedly, it is not something that comes naturally for me, in part because I feel inadequate to pray as I should and I simply sometimes do not know what to ask for or how to ask for it. I sometimes wrestle with a number of other issues like, who should I pray for, how often should I pray, is there a correct posture for prayer, etc. Then there are the de...