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. Focusing on the problem will magnify the problem. You don't need to let God know how bad the situation is.

You know what you need to do.

You need to tell yourself.

A lot of prayer is actually talking to yourself.

Praising God for who He is, yes, you are talking to Him, but it does a lot of good for

you.

You know, prayer ought to be a huge amount of prayer ought to be praise.

Praise is important. That's the reason we start our services with praise. Praise is important. You know

one of the words for prayer, if you look it up, literally means worship. Another one of the

words for prayer means to kiss the face.

Prayer is worship. Prayer is loving God. Prayer is communion with God. And brothers and sisters, most

of what we're doing isn't prayer. It's griping and complaining.

It's doing stuff to make you feel better,

to feel like you earn something from God,

thinking that you'll be heard if you'll pray for an hour.

Trying to stretch your prayer.

There is zero benefit to stretching your prayers out.

It's just religious stuff that we're into.

And I wish I had time tonight to tell you what prayer is. I spent the whole night talking about

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