Discipline 2 Part 2

Sorry so long in writing this post. A long week with lots of work kept me away.

In the chapter on the spiritual discipline of prayer, Richard Foster deals with intercession as his focus. There are many different types of prayer. But standing in the place of another who needs God's hand to move is a very special kind of praying.

We spoke about it briefly the last time. But here is a thought. Prayer that accomplishes it's goal, (an answer) is something that is taught and learned.

It is no accident that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. A strange request for Jewish men who had probably been to the temple all their lives. They saw something in Jesus' prayers which were so different from their own that they sought to attain the very power that he possessed.

We can trust Jesus to teach us this very special discipline. Invite His influence over your praying. Ask Him to reveal His heart to you so that you might pray the very prayer that He desires to answer.

1 John 5:14,15
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

Summary of the book: "Celebration of Discipline" by Richard Foster