5 Ways to Deepen Your Prayer Life
What to do when you feel like your prayers are hitting the ceiling and you’re just going through the motions.
What to do when you feel like your prayers are hitting the ceiling and you’re just going through the motions.
Bread was, when Jesus first gave us this way to pray, the staple of life. The very basic element of every meal. And yet even this, Jesus reminds us, we cannot really provide for ourselves. And though we might have bread in our pantry today, praying for our personal needs is one of the means by which we pursue humility.
Prayer doesn’t absolve us from action.
There is something that touches heaven and moves the heart of the Father when we align together in prayer, in agreement with Gods will, creating a contagious prayer impact.
At every sermon, people are invited to receive Christ, regardless of the numbers present. Moses also says that changing his prayer life changed the ministry, with missional communities evangelism playing a key role. God asked him to spend more time in prayer.
Ultimately, we approach God with complete humility because he is God and we are not. He is the Creator; we are the creation. Indeed, we approach him with a posture of total humility and lack of pride because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6), highlighting the power of prayer.
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A 2018 survey by Crossway revealed that only 2% of people surveyed felt very satisfied with their prayer life. Follow these five steps to help them.