As we look at the different ways we are able to abide in the true vine of God, today

we will explore the concept of prayer.

It is my hope today, we walk away with simplified prayer lives.

As you learn to seek out the heartbeat of God, you may grow in confidence

and its love for you and those around you. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Jesus makes us

an almost unbelievable promise in John 15, 7, and 8. Scripture says, if you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and

it will be done for you.

By this, my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

Jesus promises that if we abide in Him and allow His words to abide in us, then we can ask anything we desire

of God, and it will happen. Clearly, this is a vital passage for us to understand today. I believe

that the Lord has a fresh revelation in store for us if we take him at his word and allow him

to transform our understanding of what it is to petition

our Heavenly Father. So let's open our hearts and minds and allow the Holy Spirit to come

and do a work in us today if we place our trust in Jesus' Word. I have spent a large part of my

Christian life praying without understanding how to pray. I used to view prayer

as time for me to ask God what I thought would be good and then wait and see if my circumstances

lined up with my prayer. Then only through my circumstances would I know if God's answer to my

prayer was a yes or no. Then I read John 15, 7, and 8. Jesus clearly teaches

a very different model of prayer than I had been expecting. Jesus' model for prayer is abiding

in his presence, abiding in his words, and then asking God for our heart's desires. God desires

that we would be so in tune with his

heartbeat and so saturated with His word that our desires would be transformed into his desires.

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