Prayer Is An Amazing Thing
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It is something that cannot be fully understood. To an outsider it looks as if we are talking to thin air. If we are praying in “our head” (as my 6year old daughter says) we often think, “Are we going nuts, talking to ourselves?”
I am preaching a series on Prayer at Epic Church. I am taking some of my conversations with my daughter about prayer and preaching about them. This week I am preaching about, “Praying Like Jesus Prayed”.
Can I be honest here? Ok. Even though I am a pastor I mess up. Sometimes I mess up big time and others they are small enough that no one really notices. But, when I mess up and yell at the crazy driver in “the other car” my daughter is quick to point out. “Daddy, Jesus loves that person too. You really should be nicer to them.”
She is 100% correct. Well, when it comes to prayer and me teaching my daughter how to pray and the importance of prayer she insightfully asks, “Daddy, how did Jesus pray?” And my theologian of a daughter also cocks her head and asks, “If Jesus was God then why did he pray?”
These are the questions I am wrestling with as I prepare this weeks sermon on prayer. I hope you are seeking your Father in Heaven this week though prayer. Drop me a line if you have any insight into these questions or even how you have dealt with them with your kids.


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