Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Do you pray regularly or only when life gets tough?

Well, the kind of praying we'll hear about today moves you far beyond just asking for help in a crisis.

The apostles had watched the Lord Jesus Christ healed.

They had watched him teach.

They had watched him perform miracle

after miracle. But there was something very unusual about him when he had come out of a place of

private prayer. And so in this particular verse, it says it came to pass that as he was praying

in a certain place, when he finished, one of those disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray.

Now, not just so much how to pray, but Lord, teach us to pray as John also taught his disciples to pray.

Now, you know that Jesus prayed at his baptism.

He prayed when he was tempted by Satan all throughout his life, he was

praying. And he was God. Now, if the Lord Jesus Christ, who was God, felt the need to begin his day

in prayer, and felt the need to end his day in prayer, and felt the need to pray all night long before he made

great decisions, how much more should you and I feel the need to pray all night long before he made great decisions, how much more should

you and I feel the need of personal private prayer?

How in the world can you and I develop a relationship with God the Father through his

son, Jesus Christ, if we're always with someone else and always in the midst of noise and

always in the process of doing this and

going there and being busy here and yonder it is absolutely impossible to build a relationship

with jesus christ where there is no time given to him alone he longs to have time with us

alone where he knows that we are absolutely and totally consumed with loving him, expressing our love toward him, and worshiping him in private, not going to church.

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