Welcome to Gospel Truth with Andrew Wama, a teaching ministry emphasizing God's unconditional love and grace.

This very special broadcast of Andrew's classic teaching,

A Better Way to Pray, as originally recorded in 2003,

is being broadcast exclusively for our radio listeners.

And now, here's Andrew.

You know, I had a man come here to Colorado Springs one time.

He was teaching in a local church, and he was teaching about how to pray an hour a day.

Larry Lee at one time had this ministry out about how to pray an hour a day.

It wasn't Larry Lee, but it was a guy who was in his church, and he got that message,

and he went out, and his whole ministry was based on how to get people to pray an hour a day using the Lord's prayer right here from Matthew chapter 6.

And anyway, there was benefit to what he was saying.

I'm not saying that it was all wrong.

But anyway, this guy came and I had been to his meetings.

He came over to my office to see me.

And the very first thing he asked me was,

so how much do you pray every day?

And when he first said that, it just kind of took me off guard.

I never sat down and thought about it.

I've never sat down and tried to figure out how much time I spend in prayer every day.

And as I thought about it, I got to thinking, I said, why does this

guy want to know how long I pray every day? And I only came up with two answers. One of them is

so that he could compare himself with me and hope that he comes out looking better and he would

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