What if your prayers weren't meant to sound like an empty monologue uttered into thin air,

but an active partnership that changes everything?

The Bible reveals something far richer, a dynamic collaboration with the Creator himself

that produces deep fulfillment within

our soul.

Well, today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall describes what wholehearted prayer actually

looks like.

In this study of Romans 15, we'll discover how to move from shallow religious cliches to the

kind of fervent intercession that storms the

throne of heaven and unleashes God's power. Chuck titled his message, praying with your whole

heart.

Many things are not as they seem.

That is so true of prayer.

It would seem as though all of God's people are those who really believe in it and really practice it.

And when we do, we really trust God and we leave it all with Him.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Oh, we say religious words, and we fiddle around

with moments where we reach the end and we prod everything else, so we shoot up a word,

hoping that somehow there might be a little magic between here and there, and changes come.

But prayer? Prayer was meant to be, prayer with our whole hearts,

certainly the exception rather than the rule.

Turn to Acts chapter 12, and let's look at a rather pathetic example of those whom you would have expected to be people of enormous faith.

After all, their theology had been honed by Peter.

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