This is Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope.

If you're new, we're so glad you found us.

And if you're a daily, daily hoper, welcome back.

Today we're going to continue with our series called 40 Days of Prayer.

Such a great series because Rick is going to help you cultivate a powerful prayer life

so you can experience

breakthroughs. Breakthroughs in your relationships, breakthroughs and finances, health, and really

every area of your life. So don't miss a day of this life-changing series. And now let's join Pastor

Rick for the final part of a message called A Beginner's Guide to Prayer.

First, God loves for me to talk to him really about anything, whatever I'm interested in,

and God listens to prayers that are simple and sincere, sincere and simple.

Number three, third pillar.

God likes to show his grace by answering prayer. God is a good God. He's a good, good

father. He's a gracious father. He's a compassionate and loving father. And God loves to answer prayer

because he gets to show what he's really like. Everything in the universe

comes from the generosity of God. No one is more generous than God. And when you pray and you

ask for something in prayer, you make a request or a petition, one of the words it's called,

it gives God the opportunity to show what he's really like. So God loves it when you ask requests. Over 20 times in the New Testament,

we are commanded to ask. Ask and it shall be given. Seek and you'll find. Knock and the door will be

open. You have not because you ask not. If you ask anything in my

name, over 20 times, if you were a child of God, you're commanded to ask God for things. Why?

God gets to show how good he is. He gets to show how gracious he is, how loving he is, how

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