Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.

When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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your faith, visit lakepoint.combe.com slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to today's devotional.

Hey, what is up? So grateful you're joining us for a few minutes on the daily drive. My name is Mike,

and we're a few days away from the end of a 21-day challenge to draw closer to God.

And I've been praying that these 21 days will just become a lifestyle for all of us. And if this

little podcast helps you do that, man, our time is well worth it. And as we say here, often,

we are all on different mile markers on our spiritual journey so wherever you're at

just know that god is super excited about the journey that you decided to take and we've been talking

about prayer this week and we've been learning that scripture tells us that prayer is powerful

and effective and we've been sitting in the advice that says pray as you can not as you can't

the only way to get prayer wrong is to try

getting it right. God is not looking for well-rehearsed speeches. He's not looking for, he's not grading

essays. He's looking for a relationship. He wants to connect on a deep to deep level with his children.

I'm always loved what C.S. Lewis said about prayer. He said, we must lay before God what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Let me read that again. We must lay before God what is in us, not what ought to be in us. Just unpack your

heart. Be honest with him, in your way, with your normal voice. You know, I don't talk to my wife, Debbie,

in some fancy, ritualistic, formulaic way. Never once have I walked through the door and said,

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, O most majestic of all women, thou hast bestowed a bountable feast

before me in the presence of mine offspring that thou hast born. No way.

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