Do you ever feel like you're struggling in your prayer life?

Do your prayers ever feel like less of a real conversation with God and more of a performance?

If that's you right now, you're not alone.

Millions of fellow Christians, including pastor and author Kevin DeYoung, are right there with you.

In our interview today, I'm talking

with Kevin about our common struggle to pray and how the Lord's Prayer, the prayer that Jesus

offered as a model for our prayer, can help us to pray to God day in and day out. Kevin serves

as the pastor of Christ's Covenant Church and is the author of numerous books, including

The Lord's Prayer, Learning from Jesus on What, Why, and How to Pray from Crossway.

Let's get started.

Kevin, thank you so much for joining me on the Crossway podcast.

Great to be here.

So you open your new book on the Lord's Prayer with a rhetorical question.

Is there any activity more essential to the Christian life and yet more discouraging in the Christian life than prayer?

Do you often feel like you're struggling in your prayer life?

I often feel like I'm struggling in your prayer life? I often feel like I'm struggling in my prayer life, and I dare say most of the people in my church feel like they're struggling in their prayer life.

I think there are a few things in the Christian life that we know we're supposed to do and we constantly feel like we're failing.

I think evangelism is one.

Generosity might be another.

Parenting.

But certainly prayer could be at the top of the list.

I mean, how many of us, and I'm sure I've said this as a pastor, you know, you never get to the end of your life

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