Why praying pt3

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: WHY PRAYING PT3

WE PRAY TO BE CONFORMED TO HIS IMAGE

Some have said that prayer's purpose is not so that we might change God, but so that God might change us. And there is much truth in this. Calvin said, we pray in Jesus' name so "that there may enter our hearts no desire and no wish at all of which we should be ashamed to make him a witness, while we learn to set all our desires before his eyes, and even to pour out our whole hearts."

In prayer our hearts are shaped and molded, our affections are stirred, and our minds are transformed. The prayer closet is the academy of righteousness.

WE PRAY TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR DEPENDENCE UPON HIM

We are not independent beings. As Paul preached at the Areopagus, "In him we live and move and have our being." We are and can be nothing apart from Him.

"Prayer is as necessary for us as it is necessary for a beggar to ask alms."

A beggar is by definition one who asks for alms. We are people, human beings, created in His image; by very definition we are dependent and are to pray.

LET US PRAY
This week, God will answer your prayer and your testimony will shake ground and turn unbeliever to Christ in Jesus Name

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