Hello Grace Church, Happy New Year!
Every January people dream and clean and purge and promise. They create gym plans, meal plans, financial plans, all the plans. It’s hard not to get swept up in the opportunity to start fresh.
This year as a church, I believe God is inviting us into a simple practice that will ground us in all our efforts. Nothing wrong with plans, but if they aren’t centered on our relationship with God and communion with Him, they fall short.
This will be the third year in a row we’ve started January with a prayer series. I don’t know if we will ever change this habit. It’s needed every year. We have to remind ourselves of the necessity to pray. We have to continue to work at prayer, and work to remain dependent on God.
When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray he said: "When you pray, pray like this..." and then recited the Lord’s prayer. For the next 4 weeks we’re going to look at this model prayer and do our best to build a life that learns to pray like Jesus.
