We're asking God to do on earth what I want done.

That's not prayer.

Dr. Tony Evans says prayer ought to be less about what we're saying and more about what we're hearing.

Prayer is finding out what he's up to so that you can do that on earth.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Relationship experts tell us that we ought to do more listening than talking. Well, today, Dr. Evans explains why that idea is even more true of our prayer lives.

Let's join him as he explains. Satan does not want you

to know your spiritual authority because then you just might exercise it. He doesn't mind you

coming to church. He doesn't mind you reading your Bible or saying prayers or enjoying Christian music as long as you don't understand

that that's authority you're supposed to use and not simply information you're supposed to capture.

God has given mankind legal authority to execute his will in history. Let them rule.

We will create man in our own image and they will act on our behalf in the visible realm

as we act in the invisible realm.

Therefore, God created us like him

so that we could communicate with him

in order to exercise his will in history.

This thing is so powerful and so potent that the Bible talks about men being

able to change God's mind when they prayed. God said, I'm going to do one thing. They prayed.

God reversed his decision. So when we talk about this thing called prayer, this thing

that is often boring, this thing that we often don't know what to say after three sentences,

this thing where we say the same thing every day the same way, is not some minor thing. God says that this access actually reaches up and pulls down to

earth God's purposes. Or as the Lord's prayer says, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth.

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