Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Matthew chapter 6 verse 7 right before Jesus gives us the Lord's prayer

says when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the

Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their many words.

Do not be like them, for your father knows what you need before you ask him.

Those two verses are astounding to think about.

So Jesus saying, okay, don't heap up empty phrases,

like the Gentiles do they think they're going to be heard because they're just using all kinds of words.

He says, don't be like them because why your father in

heaven knows what you need before you even ask him so apparently God is not up in

heaven when we're praying with like a stenopad like writing down whatever we say and saying oh thank you for mentioning that I didn't realize that or I didn't know that was going on like he already knows what we need before we even ask him. Which if we really think

about that causes us to then ask the question well if he already knows what I need

then why am I asking him in the first place?

Fairly knows what I need what's the point of prayer and as soon as we ask

that question we're on the verge of a major breakthrough in prayer because we're starting to realize that the primary

purpose of prayer is not to get something but to know someone.

That is but to know someone.

That is huge to understand.

The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something but to know someone. Now it's not that we don't ask for things of

course we ask for things we're taught right after this what we should ask for

for God's name to be hallowed for his kingdom to come his will to be hallowed, for his kingdom to come, his will to be done, for

provision of our daily bread, forgiveness of our debts, for God's guidance and

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