One of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray..." (Luke 11:1)
"When a person is born again from above, the life of God is born in him. Prayer is the way that the life of God in us is nourished...We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself...
To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'Prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things. Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person's inner nature."
(reprinted from My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers, day 8/28)
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