Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, September 22nd.

Today's lesson reminds us that true disciples of Jesus Christ should devote themselves to prayer.

If you need some guidance in that area, stay with us to walk through the sacred journey as the disciple learns to pray.

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

He went out to 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 of them.

So upon one occasion, the Scripture says that after He had been praying, one of them said,

Lord, teach us to pray as John also taught His disciples.

They wanted what He had. They wanted the sense of fellowship that He had with the Father.

They could see a sense of oneness between Him and God that they wanted.

And they knew that the key to that oneness was in His prayer.

So they said to Him, would you teach us the pray as you pray?

When they said, Lord, teach us the pray. They were saying, Lord, teach us to be as dependent upon the Father

and to trust Him for everything, guidance, provisions, sustenance in the life.

As dependent as you are, you teach us how to have the same attitude.

Now, in response to that, He taught them two things.

And that's what I want us to discuss, because I believe that a true disciple,

in order to be a true disciple, you must not only have Him as your Savior,

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