Today we're going to look at what I believe is the most life-giving aspect of daily time alone with God.

Prayer.

There's so many ideas out there about what prayer should be.

Today my hope is to clarify what prayer can mean for you and me in this space we're creating

for God's presence by looking at scripture together and then ultimately

making space today to really pray.

My hope is that today clarifies a pathway for us that we can walk every day into a deeper relationship with God.

Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Our verse are today comes from 1st Corinthians 14 verse 15.

Scripture says, what am I to do?

I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my spirit but I will pray with my mind also.

I will sing praise with my spirit but I will sing with my mind also.

Prayer is one of the most fulfilling aspects of Christian spirituality.

It's time set aside to simply listen to God, to place our lives in his hands and to pray in response to the desires of his heart.

In 1st Thessalonians 517, scripture tells us to pray without ceasing. In John 14, 13 through 14, Jesus

states, whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

But perhaps the most important scripture on prayer is when Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew 6, 5 through 8.

Scripture says, and when you pray you must not be like the hypocrites for they love to

stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners that they may be

seen by others truly I say to you they have received their reward. But when you

pray go into your room and shut the door and pray to your father who is in

secret and your father who is in secret and your father who sees in secret will reward you.

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