Ever feel like your prayer life has become more of a duty than a privilege?

Something you check off your list, muttering a few sentences only when you've exhausted every other option?

Well, if that's your experience, you're not alone. Today, on Insight

for Living, Chuck Swindall exposes the gap between what we say about prayer and how we actually

practice it. And he presents a far better way. His application is drawn from Romans

Chapter 15. The biblical model isn't just more productive,

it's deeply satisfying and absolutely essential for breaking through spiritual opposition.

The last four verses of the 15th chapter of Romans provides us with the sacred text of our time together.

You will find in your worship folder the outline for today's message, which I would like for you to place in the book just before Romans, it's the book of Acts.

Locate chapter 12 and slide it in there.

We'll begin in Acts 12 and find our way to Romans 15, 30 through 33, Romans 15, beginning at verse 30. Now I urge you, brethren, by our

Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God

for me, that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient

in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints, so that I may

come to you in joy by the will of God and find refreshing rest in your company.

Now the God of peace be with you all.

You're listening to Insight for Living.

To dig deeper into the book of Romans on your own, be sure to purchase our searching the scripture's Bible study workbook by going to insight.org slash offer.

Chuck titled today's message,

Praying with Your Whole Heart.

Many things are not as they seem to be.

We may have thought that they were that way,

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