Saints,
I pray that we continue to be drawn into deeper intimacy with Jesus. I know God will answer this prayer because Jesus asked for the same thing as recorded in John 17.
Be encouraged by these words from Paul Miller, in his book A Praying Life, from the chapter on “Learning to be Helpless,” page 59.
“If we think we can do life on our own, we will not take prayer seriously. Our failure to pray will always feel like something else--a lack of discipline or too many obligations. But when something is important to us, we make room for it. Prayer is simply not important to many Christians because Jesus is already an add-on. That is why, as we’ll see later, suffering is so important to the process of learning how to pray. It is God’s gift to show us what life is really like.”
What are your thoughts on your suffering and intimacy with Jesus through prayer?
Blessings,
Steve
