Well, should we pray with a few words, or should we pray with many words?

Solomon the Wise tells us to pray with just a few words.

And Jesus himself teaches us to pray with only a few words as well.

But Paul tells us to pray without ever stopping.

And now Luke Barnes is confused.

Luke writes and asks of this, hello Pastor John, Jesus and Solomon warn us about using many

words in prayer before God, however Paul commands us to pray without ceasing.

How do these two truths work together?

Right, we talked about what it means to pray without ceasing.

I think back in episode 933, if I looked it up right, but Luke has a twist that he puts

on the question that we didn't talk about there.

And he's asking, how can praying without ceasing fit together with keeping our words few

in the presence of God?

And let me just say in passing that I think this kind of question, if asked humbly and eagerly

with the expectation that there is a good God honoring answer in Scripture, I think

asking that kind of question is one of the most valuable, practical kinds of questions

you can ask because when you try to answer a question like this, it reveals the measure

or lack of measure of your understanding of the two verses you're trying to fit together.

And it forces you to go deeper.

If you take each verse by itself and don't think of the other, you may get some measure

of insight, but when you take the two together, it forces you to ask questions and to dig deeper

so that you realize what you had been seeing when you just looked at one of the verses

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