Well, hello everyone, and welcome to another mornings with the masters, where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

I'm so excited to be back. I have missed being on the podcast and you know that Chad and I are just trying to divide and

conquer in our lives right now but I'm excited we're in our tried and true new morning mercies. So let's just jump on in and be encouraged. It says this

prayer is abandoning all other objects of worship and giving myself to the daily worship of God alone.

I shouldn't have to say this, but I think it is necessary.

Prayer is an act of worship.

It is profoundly more than bringing to God our grocery lists of self-defined wants and needs. Here are seven ways in which prayer is rooted in worship.

One, prayer acknowledges God's existence.

This is the bottom line of all true prayer.

It begins and ends with the recognition that there is something more ultimate in the universe than you.

Prayer places emphasis firmly on the first four words of the Bible, in the beginning, God. So prayer is an

acknowledgement of God as Creator and Sovereign. It is rooted in assent to his power, wisdom, and rule. It would make no sense to

pray if you thought that God's

to prayer bows to God's glory. This is the constant requirement of prayer.

You cannot pray properly without recognizing that there is a greater glory in this universe than your own glory or the various glories of the physical created world.

Prayer is recognition that no created glory can or will ever satisfy the heart of the one who

praise.

It flows from the understanding that it is only when you live for the glory of God

that your heart can rest content. Three, prayer submits to God's plan.

Prayer is not asking God to endorse and resource your plan for your life.

Prayer is recognition that the one who made the world, including you, knows what is best for you.

As the Psalma says in Psalm 99, the rules of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

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