30 Days On The Mount

Jesus asks us to lay down any similarities our current prayer life has with the practices of the hypocrites and the faithless begging of the pagans . He then reminds us that God ‘ is neither ignorant, so that we need to instruct him, nor hesitant, so that we need to persuade him. ’ xiv Our needs are a signal to draw us to our Father to see how they can be fulfilled in relationship to His will. “And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for.” (1 Jn 5:15) Prayer becomes an expression of trust and growing love for God.

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