Many of us experience prayer more as a burden than as a pleasure. We regard it as important, even paramount, and we feel guilty about our failure, often blaming ourselves for not praying “good” enough. Let's see how God helps us in prayer

2. Is prayer important
to you?

3. How often do you
pray?

4. Approximately how
long?

5. Do you find prayer
satisfying?

6. Do you sense the
presence of God
when you pray?

7. •Is prayer important to you
•How often do you pray?
•Approximately how long?
•Do you find prayer
satisfying
•Do you sense the presence
of God when you pray?

9. Modern Struggle

10. George Buttrick
“a spasm of words
lost in a cosmic
indifference”

11. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“Of all the activities in which
the Christian engages, and
which are part of the Christian
life, there is surely none which
causes so much perplexity, and
raises so many problems, as the
activity which we call prayer.”

12. Philippians 3:8 (NIV84)
…I consider everything
a loss compared to the
surpassing greatness
of knowing Christ
Jesus my Lord

13. Gerald C. May
“After twenty years of
listening to the
yearnings of people’s
hearts, I am convinced
that human beings have
an inborn desire for God.

14. Gerald C. May
Whether we are
consciously religious or
not, this desire is our
deepest longing and
most precious treasure.”

15. Dt 30:11–15 ESV
11 “For this commandment that I
command you today is not too
hard for you, neither is it far
off. 12 It is not in heaven, that
you should say, ‘Who will ascend
to heaven for us and bring it to
us, that we may hear it and do it?’

16. Dt 30:11–15 ESV
13 Neither is it beyond
the sea, that you should
say, ‘Who will go over the
sea for us and bring it to
us, that we may hear it
and do it?’

17. Dt 30:11–15 ESV
14 But the word is very near
you. It is in your mouth and
in your heart, so that you
can do it. 15 “See, I have set
before you today life and
good, death and evil.

18. Dt 30:11 ESV
…this commandment
that I command you
today is not too hard
for you, neither is it
far off.

19. Dt 30:14 ESV
But the word is very
near you. It is in your
mouth and in your
heart, so that you
can do it.

20. Dt 30:11–15 ESV
15 “See, I have set
before you today
life and good, death
and evil.

21. •Is prayer important to you
•How often do you pray?
•Approximately how long?
•Do you find prayer satisfying
•Do you sense the presence of
God when you pray?