October 15, plan for prayer.

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.

These things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you,

and that your joy may be full.

John 15, 7 and 8, and 11.

Prayer pursues joy in fruitful fellowship with Jesus,

knowing that God is glorified when we bear fruit

in answer to prayer.

Why do God's children so often fail to have consistent habits

of happy, fruitful prayer?

Unless I'm badly mistaken, one of the reasons is not so much

that we don't want to, but that we don't plan to.

If you want to take a four-week vacation,

you don't just get up one summer morning and say,

hey, let's go today.

You won't have anything ready.

You won't know where to go. Nothing has been planned.

And that is how many of us treat prayer.

We get up day after day and realize that significant times of prayer

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