A Better Way To Pray: Takeaway #3

Takeaway # 3: Back to Basics

What would be left of most Christian's prayer lives if the following were subtracted?

• repenting for sin
• asking for things
• intercession

Adam & Eve didn't pray for any of those things; they had: 

• no one to intercede for 
• no demons to cast out
• no kingdoms to tear down
• no petitions (clothes, food, houses, jobs)

Yet they met w/ God every evening & communed w/ Him. Their conversations w/ God had nothing in them concerning any of the following:

• sin
• lack/need
• problems
• repenting
• begging
• pleading

Prayer becomes religious when you try to use it for something God never intended.

Don't fool yourself into thinking you'll be heard by praying long periods of time or using certain words to petition Him again & again & again. The Lord made it very clear that isn't what prayer is (Matthew 6:7).