Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, September 21st.

Christians often neglect the amazing privilege they have of directly communicating with God.

Stay with us to continue our series on discipleship with a journey towards a deeper and more fulfilling prayer life.

If you'll turn to Luke chapter 11, we've been in a series on discipleship in this morning.

The disciple learns to pray.

And it begins and it came to pass that as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased,

one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray as John also taught his disciples.

And he said unto them, when you pray, say,

Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done, as in heaven so in earth.

Give us day by day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins as we also forgive everyone that is indebted to us,

and lead us not in the temptation but deliver us from evil.

Now the apostles had watched Jesus, watched every single facet of his life because they knew there was something of the supernatural touching his life they could not understand.

They knew him to be the Messiah, yet in spite of that there was something very, very unusual they could not overlook.

It was the custom of their day for a rabbi that is a teacher of his disciples who every may be to teach and instruct his followers in some type of prayer,

one that they could repeat over and over again.

So when they watched Jesus' time after time, pray, and they had seen him out praying all night by himself, and no doubt wondering, how does he do that all night long?

Many times you'll find the Lord Jesus Christ sitting apart a time in order to pray for something specific.

He went out the Scripture says early in the morning before the day to pray to talk to the Father.

Before he chose those twelve apostles, he prayed all night long.

There were many many times he spent all night in prayer seeking the Father's guidance and direction.

That group of apostles saw in him the super-natural power of God, and they saw also, I believe, in him, something that was so evident to them after he spent a long period of time in prayer,

they could see something happening in his life and in his ministry that just all them.

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