Pray then like this…

Today's Scripture:
Matt 6:9-13

Today's Prayer: The Lord's Prayer is a model to help you understand what prayer is. The biggest challenge is to get past its familiar phrases and to think how it reflects what's happening in real life. Pray this prayer back to the Lord, using it like an outline by filling it in with the needs of your own life.

I pray a lot. But I am not sure I pray correctly a lot. I pray for my family. I pray about my job. I pray about our finances. But when I pray these things they are almost always future focused and so request oriented. As I look at how Jesus taught us to pray. We are to glorify God in prayer. We should express a heart's desire for God in prayer. And when we do request from God, he only instructs us to request for the day for our material needs [Proverbs 30:8, Exodus 16]. The only future requests he allows are about our spiritual lives and the expansion of His Glory through His Kingdom. When I am asking for more than this, I am being faithless. I am being untrusting. God promises he will provide material needs and asks that I focus on my relationship with Him [Matt 6:25-34]. That should be so easy and yet here I am.