In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, a pattern of powerful prayer.

If someone should ask you, how can I pray for you, what would you say?

Would you be able to give them a very clear answer? I want you to pray for me in this area or that area of my life? Or would you because maybe a, because of pride and maybe a little bit of embarrassment, you would have to say, well, you know, I'll think about it. Or it may be that you're not even sure exactly what God is up to in your life and you

will know what to say anyway.

And sometimes we really don't know how to answer someone when they say, how shall I pray

for you?

And yet all of us have needs for prayer and probably one of the greatest assets of our

life is to have somebody we know who loves us, somebody who's concerned about us,

who genuinely will call our name.

Now, oftentimes we want to pray for someone

and we don't know what to pray for.

And oftentimes when we ask and they don't tell us,

yet we know that there's a real need in their life.

We sense this need in their life.

Sometimes we don't know what to pray

for us. So oftentimes we will say, well, Lord, just bless them and help them and meet their needs

and so forth. And so it's so general that oftentimes likewise, we just sort of forget to pray

for them or we just move on unless we keep saying the same thing over and over again.

Sometimes we have the idea that if you become a Christian

then you just automatically know how to pray. And here's a young Christian, just born again

by the grace of God, and they're not too sure how to pray. And we just sort of take for granted

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