Oswald Chambers said this: "Prayer is not a preparation for work, it is work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it is the battle."
Through the teachings of Jesus in this text, as He tells us how to pray and how not to pray, our prayer should be that the Holy Spirit do a supernatural work in our hearts that we may understand WHAT prayer is, what prayer IS NOT, HOW prayer operates in our lives, and WHY it is so important.
In this introduction to the study of prayer, we'll examine first, what prayer is not through the two examples that our Lord Jesus gives: The Hypocrites & the Heathens (or the Pretenders & the Pagans).
We discover that often prayer is used as a means of idolatry as we pray likewise as the hypocrites, or as the heathens.
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Jon Cardwell was saved by God’s grace on June 3, 1985 while serving in the military as a deep sea diver in the U.S. Navy. The call to ministry came 8 years later when he was invited to serve the Lord in the Philippine mission field. Jon’s entry into pastoral ministry came...
