Why Do We Read the Bible? How do you get a transformed heart? When we worship at church we get a glimpse of Christ, but when we sit at His feet and study His Word, that is when you get to know Christ.
When we open Luke 11, the disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray. As far as we know, the disciples never said, “Lord, teach us to preach,” or, “Teach us to do miracles.” I believe this is because, hanging out with the Lord, they understood that His teaching, His witnessing, His miraculous power—indeed, all He was and all He did—were linked to and a result of His devoted prayer life. Luke 11:1 speaks of John the Baptist as one who prayed and taught others to pray.
We first see Jesus give a pattern for prayer. Teaching them a prayer of only sixty-two words, it was as if Jesus was saying, “Keep it simple.”
Second, we see the necessity of persistence in prayer. Persistence in prayer helps us determine what is important to us.
To sum up, after hearing Jesus pray, his disciples were inspired to pray the same way. Do your prayers create a hunger in people’s hearts to pray as well? Do you regularly devote your prayers and efforts to bringing glory and honor to God’s name?
