Teach Us to Pray
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Prayer can be a struggle for every Christian at times--even Jesus' disciples sought His instruction on how to pray. Today, R.C. Sproul begins his study of the Lord's Prayer by explaining what we should avoid doing when we pray.
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| 0:00.0 | The disciples came up to Jesus on an occasion and said, |
| 0:04.0 | Master, teach us how to pray. |
| 0:09.0 | I find that fascinating. |
| 0:10.0 | That that was the burning question. |
| 0:12.0 | Why do you suppose they asked him? that that was the burning question. |
| 0:13.0 | Why do you suppose they asked him that? |
| 0:15.5 | I'm speculating now, but my guess is, |
| 0:17.9 | they saw the link between Jesus' extraordinary prayer life and his power, his teaching, his character, his |
| 0:29.0 | whole person. |
| 0:35.0 | If you had the opportunity to ask Jesus to teach you something, what would you choose? |
| 0:42.0 | Maybe how to raise the dead, how to walk on water? Well |
| 0:46.2 | the disciples ask Jesus how to pray. Welcome to the Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host, Nathan W Bingham. |
| 0:56.5 | Prayer should be a natural part of the Christian life, yet it's an area that many Christians |
| 1:01.4 | have struggled with at some point, so it's a great encouragement |
| 1:05.1 | to know that even his close disciples ask this question and needed help. |
| 1:10.3 | All week, R.C. Sprawl will be taking us through portions of Jesus' answer to help us in our prayer lives. |
| 1:17.0 | We're also offering Dr. Sproll's Book on Prayer, along with digital access to the complete series you'll hear this week for a |
| 1:24.0 | donation of any amount at renewing your mind dot org. Here's Dr Sprawl on |
| 1:30.1 | Jesus answer to the disciples question, |
| 1:32.6 | beginning with how Jesus said we shouldn't pray. |
| 1:38.4 | A few months ago, I was sitting in a easy chair in my house doing something that I don't do very often and that's I was channel surfing. |
| 1:48.0 | Sitting there with my remote control flipping through the channels and as I was moving through the channels I quickly |
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