In last week’s reading in David McIntyre’s The Hidden Life of Prayer we looked at praising God in prayer. This week we were to read two chapters, one that looked at supplication and one that looked at confession—two other integral components of prayer.
I found the chapter on supplication—making requests of God in prayer—particularly helpful. Though I shared a few elements of that chapter in a blog post yesterday, I want to share them again today. They have already proven very helpful and practical in my own life and ministry; they have helped sharpen my understanding of why God does not just grant us the things we believe we need, but instead tells us to pray to him. They have helped me see the goodness of God in having us labor in prayer.
McIntyre tells us of four things the Lord accomplishes in us as we labor in prayer:
For next Thursday please read (or listen to) chapters seven and eight. These are short chapters, so I think it would be best to combine them and finish up the book. Not that I am in that big of a hurry, but the two chapters together amount to a very easy read, so let’s just do them both.
The purpose of this program is to read these books together. If you have something to say, whether a comment or criticism or question, feel free to use the comment section for that purpose.

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