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The Christian Life · Foundational

How to Pray

Prayer is intentionally communicating your heart to God: coming to the Father, in the name of Jesus, by the help of the Holy Spirit, with faith in His goodness and surrender to His will.

The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.

What you'll learn
1

What prayer is, and what it is not

2

Why we pray to the Father, in Jesus' name, by the Spirit's help, and to no one else

3

How the Lord's Prayer gives us a pattern and not a formula

4

How to think about answers, delays, and the things that hinder prayer

5

How to build a simple, lasting habit of prayer, alone and with others

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