Since God knows everything, why do we need to ask him to meet our needs?

Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth says it's an opportunity to form a loving relationship.

He wants us to tell him our needs. He wants us to reach out to him. He doesn't want to be just this cosmic blessing dispenser.

He wants us to come to him as our father and say, Lord, we have a need.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, August 24, 2016. When you have a need from a corporation, what are you have a need from a corporation, what do you do? Find the phone number,

navigate through a series of confusing touch-tone choices. Then you wait, on hold, sometimes for a very long time.

Now, this is so amazing. God's in charge of the whole universe,

not just one little corporation. Yet when you have a need, you can have immediate access.

Nancy will talk about it continuing in a series called the Lord's Prayer. Well, we've taken our time

thus far on our journey through the Lord's Prayer.

And I don't know about you, but for me, this has been such a rich study. I've been studying the

Lord's Prayer now, meditating on it in my own personal quiet time for several months,

and just things that I never saw there before, things about prayer, things about the heart and the ways

of God that have been so helpful and encouraging to me. I'm learning, and I've said this

several times in this series, that this is a way to pray. It's a template. It's a pattern. It's a model

for our praying. And I hope that it's affecting the way that you pray. But it's also a model

for all of life,

how we think about life, what our priorities are.

So we looked first for some days at just those first two words, Our Father.

And then Our Father in Heaven, we talked about who it is that we're praying to,

who we're talking to, and the fact that this is a family prayer.

We pray it together as the family of God, the children of God, those who are children of God through

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