Is prayer important to you?

How often do you pray?

Approximately how long?

Do you find prayer satisfying?

Do you sense the presence of God when you pray?

•Is prayer important to you

•How often do you pray?

•Approximately how long?

•Do you find prayer satisfying

•Do you sense the presence of God when you pray?

Modern Struggle

George Buttrick

“a spasm of words lost in a cosmic indifference”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Of all the activities in which the Christian engages, and

which are part of the Christian life, there is surely none which causes so much perplexity, and raises so many problems, as the activity which we call prayer.”

Philippians 3:8 (NIV84)…I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness

of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord

Gerald C. May

“After twenty years of listening to the

yearnings of people’s hearts, I am convinced

that human beings have an inborn desire for God.

Gerald C. May

Whether we are consciously religious or

not, this desire is our deepest longing and

most precious treasure.”

Dt 30:11–15 ESV

11 “For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that

you should say, ‘Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to

us, that we may hear it and do it?’

Dt 30:11–15 ESV

13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should

say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to

us, that we may hear it and do it?’

Dt 30:11–15 ESV

14 But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you

can do it. 15 “See, I have set before you today life and

good, death and evil.

Dt 30:11 ESV

…this commandment that I command you

today is not too hard for you, neither is it

far off.

Dt 30:14 ESV

But the word is very near you. It is in your

mouth and in your heart, so that you

can do it.

Dt 30:11–15 ESV

15 “See, I have set before you today

life and good, death and evil.

•Is prayer important to you

•How often do you pray?

•Approximately how long?

•Do you find prayer satisfying

•Do you sense the presence of God when you pray?