Today on Summit Life with JD Greer, let your kingdom come and your will be done.

What we're doing is surrendering ourselves to pursue God's agenda on earth.

Prayer is not supposed to be getting God to help us in all of our agendas.

It's supposed to be seeking to join God where He is working.

That one thought will revolutionize your prayer life.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor JD Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitavitch, and we are so glad that you're back with us today.

Over the next two days, we're going to walk through the Lord's Prayer together here on the program.

Most of us can recite it, but do we really know what we're praying and how to use it as a guide

for all of our prayers? We know you don't want to miss a single message here on the program,

so if you ever find yourself falling behind, you can catch up on previous broadcasts online

at JD Greer.com. But for now, grab your Bible and let's learn more about how to actually pray.

Here's Pastor JD.

Luke, Chapter 11, if you got your Bible this weekend, we are in the second of a four-week series

on prayer called Ask. The title of the series comes from Paul Miller's observation in a book called

A Praying Life, the best book that I've ever read on prayer. He makes an observation in the book

that you could summarize all of Jesus' teachings on prayer. You could summarize them by simply saying

just ask. Last week, we saw that Jesus instructed us to pray desperately, boldly, persistently,

and trustingly. We've got issues. I've told you when it comes to prayer. I've explained before

that we often, in our prayers, fill it up with little things that just don't make sense or

we repeat phrases or God's name or to the word just over and over and over again. Father God,

I just want to thank you for the God. I just want to ask for the God that you just, or maybe

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