Does the Bible tell us how to pray?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Well, hi, it's Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program

where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

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First up today, here's a voicemail from one of our listeners named Charles.

My question is this concerning prayer.

Okay, when you pray for something, like say, for example, there is a storm of brewing, and you're going to say, oh, I'm going to pray that my house doesn't get damaged or destroyed.

Well, there's a whole bunch of people in the same block doing the same thing.

And the truth is, a storm is going to hit, where it's going to hit, how it's going to hit, when it's going

to hit. So how do you explain that? Prayer doesn't change the outcome of what we want in life

most of the time. Your circumstances don't always change, although we wish that they would,

and it would be really good in a lot of times if they would,

but they don't. So how do you explain it? Thank you very much.

Hey, Charles. Thank you for that question. It made me think of I used to be really in the football,

the NFL.

I was a Chargers fan.

Now the Chargers left San Diego,

so I'm not really into them anymore.

But I remember years ago as a newer believer,

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