All right. Well, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study. Looking forward to what the Lord has for us tonight. I want to talk with you about something so simple, yet so powerful, that it can change

our lives at a time of global crisis in our lives. As I spent time seeking the Lord

concerning tonight's teaching, it became abundantly clear.

I mean, sometimes it's not so clear, but this was one of those times that the Lord made it very clear in no uncertain terms that the topic was to be that of prayer. And I chose this title simply pray for a reason.

And it's because we've made prayer so complicated, so much so that we don't even pray.

Simply put, prayer is simply talking to the Lord.

It's talking to God who loves us so much more than we could ever even begin to imagine.

And he wants to hear from us. I'm convinced that God actually likes to hear our voice. It's kind of like as earthly

parents when our children were small and I mean they're so adorable and you wanted to hear

their voice and you would do things to get them to make noise just so you

could hear their voice even if it was a noise a joyful noise for me personally my prayer life

totally changed when I came to the realization that prayer was a get-to and not a got-to. I kind of tended

towards this legalism of sorts when it came to prayer. And for me, for much of my Christian life, regrettably, prayer was always a chore.

It was, you know, I need to pray. I better pray. I need to pray more.

And it was only when the Lord just got a hold of me and ministered to me that I don't want it to be like that.

And the way he did it was, as only God can, it was by way of my own parenting as an earthly father. And it was in this sense of having your children

say something to you to the effect of, oh, I need to spend more time with you. Oh, I got to talk with you.

And it's almost like, don't bother. I don't want it to be like

that. I mean, you've got to. No, how about it being a get-to? I don't want you to unless you

want to. I want to have that fellowship with you, that intimacy with you, but it's

not a got to. You don't got to. You get to. You know, I had a conversation with my son who's in

California, Lord willing. In fact, I appreciate your prayers.

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