Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15. We're going after the

prodigals and we're going to get him. The title of today's post is, there is more.

An increasing number of believers understand that prayer involves more than simply asking or petitioning God.

Making requests of him is certainly one aspect of prayer. The Lord's prayer tells us to

ask for daily bread, the forgiveness of our sins, deliverance from evil.

And James said, at times we have not because we ask not. But there is more, and the more

is vitally important.

Whether or not we receive the blessings Christ provided,

as well as the needed breakthroughs against evil, is determined by more than just our asking and God's willingness to answer.

Because this isn't understood, people often form wrong assumptions about prayer and about God.

For example, when their prayers go unanswered, many people automatically assume God simply chose not to do so.

What they requested must not have been his will. Others assume they must not have enough faith,

which is terribly demoralizing and robs them of future motivation.

Some believe they haven't asked God often enough,

or as many times as they need to,

importuning or persisting with God and they're praying

as they believe Luke 118 teaches would deal with that later.

Still others conclude that prayer is simply a futile religious exercise.

God will do what he wants regardless of whether or not we pray.

These are tragic outcomes that hinder our lives as well as

Christ's cause. Prayer for people's salvation is far too important to allow our past failures disappointments and lack of knowledge to

hinder the process under no circumstances should we grow discouraged give up

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