What does it mean to truly pray?

Listen to Adrian Rogers.

Prayer is not some sort of exercise where we get our will on earth done in heaven,

but where God in heaven gets his will done on earth.

Prayer is not some way where we bend God's will to fit our will,

but prayer is finding the will of God

and getting in on it. Welcome to Love Worth Finding, featuring profound Bible teaching

simply taught by Adrian Rogers. First Thessalonians 517 instructs us to pray without ceasing,

but so many times our prayers seem to go unanswered. We pray and

seek God, we ask according to His will, and it feels quiet. Does he hear us? We can rest assured

that yes, he does. In Luke chapter 1, we meet Zacharias and his wife Elizabeth, both righteous before God,

yet barren, without any children for which they had prayed for their whole lives.

By observing their story, we can learn what to do and what it actually means when prayer seems

unanswered. Once again, here's Adrian Rogers.

Would you take your Bibles and turn to the gospel according to Luke chapter one?

I want to talk to you today about prayer, and I want to talk to you on this subject when prayer

seems unanswered.

Now, that's a problem to many of us.

We hear that we're to pray, and indeed we should,

but so many times we pray, and our prayer seems unanswered.

Look, if you will, in Luke Luke chapter one, beginning in verse five,

there was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias of the course

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