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Episode Summary: Prayer is simply having a conversation with God. So why would Jesus’ followers ask Jesus to teach them how to pray? Similarly, why would Jesus view prayer as something he needed to teach his followers to do? The answer is that in Jesus’ mind, his followers should build a pattern for a regular conversation with God. Not only that, but there are six component parts to build into that conversation that are so important that he mentioned the identical six components of prayer twice in Scripture. This episode examines these six components and then looks at why it is so hard to continue to pray, especially for kingdom advancement, and what Jesus said to help us stay motivated. 

For Further Prayerful Thought.

1. What is your response to the idea that prayer is an intimate, real conversation with a heavenly father who loves us, but that Jesus directed his followers to build that conversation around six principles?
2. Why do you think Jesus taught us to regularly confess our sins to God and to associate that with insuring that I have a forgiving attitude towards others?
3. With all the challenges that we have to face in everyday life to try to live for Jesus, why do you think Jesus included, as the last petition that we should anticipate temptation and ask for help to resist it when it comes? Why don’t we do that more often? 
4. You would you reconcile your unanswered prayers with Jesus’ promise, For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. What message is Jesus trying to send?

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