Nancy DeMoss-Waglmuth finds that when she prays, it's easy to focus on herself.

And so I go to prayer, and I often immediately find myself just grocery listing God with all my burdens, all my concerns, all my problems, all my needs.

Lord, I need this, and please do this in my family and please help me with this and please solve this issue

or show me what to do about this situation. We need wisdom. Great to ask God these things,

but don't start there. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, August 3, 2016. 2013. So if prayer is more than a grocery list, how should we pray? Is it ever okay to ask for things?

Nancy will address these topics continuing in the series the Lord's Prayer. We'll be taking this

in-depth look at prayer leading up to cry out the nationwide prayer event for women, September 23rd.

Here's Nancy. Martin Luther's barber once asked Luther to teach him how to pray. Isn't that great? He saw something in Luther. He said,

this man knows how to pray. This man knows how to connect with God. So as Barber said, would you

teach me how to pray? And in response to his barber's questions, Luther wrote a small book called

A Simple Way to Pray. And in that book, he shares a lot out of his own prayer life. It is a simple book. It's a

short book, but he talks about how he prayed through the Ten Commandments, through the Apostles

Creed, and through the Lord's Prayer. And he would just take it a phrase at a time and show how he would

meditate on it and how he would expand on it. Luther had this to say about the Lord's prayer. He said,

to this day, I suckle at the Lord's prayer like a child. And as an old man, eat and drink from it,

and never get my fill. He said, it is the very best prayer, even better than the Salter, which is so

very dear to me. It is surely evident that a real

master, capital M, composed and taught it. He just loved this prayer, and he took it apart, broke it

apart, and would meditate on it, phrase by phrase, as I'm encouraging you to do as we get into

this series, begin to meditate on it.

Chances are you already have it memorized, but to pray it as you're driving, as you're waking up,

as you're falling asleep, as you're waiting in places, just one phrase at a time. Maybe one

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