Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

My message today is we do not know how to pray. We do not know how to pray. That's not me saying that.

That's the Apostle Paul that comes straight out of the scripture

that we're going to look at today. So let's go ahead and get started. You know, we'll never

forget the COVID pandemic, will we? We'll never forget it. A microscopic virus just kind of

shut us down.

COVID-19 crippled the economy.

It parlayed anxiety.

It distributed fear and it killed multitudes of people.

It was a difficult time.

In phrases like shelter in place, social distancing, flatten the curve.

We'd never heard those phrases before COVID.

And now we pray we never have to use them again, right?

Masks covered our faces and fear shrouded our hearts in the dread of death well it was everywhere

we've processed many of the lessons as a society that we learned during those days but i would

like to add one more and that is, we do not know how to pray.

During that season, our team created a virtual prayer page, and every day, or almost every day,

I would release a message of encouragement and invite people, post your

prayer needs, post your prayer needs. Let us pray for you. And we had a team of people who were

willing to pray. And we had prayer requests, hundreds of thousands of them. It came from all over the

world, from Cambodia to Connecticut. Many of thousands of them. It came from all over the world, from Cambodia to

Connecticut. Many of them were specific prayer needs, like pray that I find some work,

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