The greatest privilege we experience as children of God! An invitation to prayer.
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“How should I pray to God?”
Rediscovering prayer, a practice inherited from the wisdom of the Bible and the tradition of the church.

Scott McKnight, a prominent biblical scholar, examines the prayers that God's people have offered to Him for thousands of years from the perspective of petition.
We reaffirm the value and significance of proper prayer of petition not only through examples presented in the Bible but also through examples of the prayer that have been practiced by many Christians across denominations and sects for centuries.
It teaches us in detail how to address the object of our prayers, how to address God, and how to convey our wishes to God.
For those who want to draw near to God but don't know how to pray, Scott McKnight opens the door to a conversation that leads to an intimate relationship with God.

I learned to pray not only from the pastor of our church and my father, but also by listening to and imitating the prayers of other believers.
So I learned to pray very easily in the English used in the King James Version.
So, to me, the expression “Thou art” is just as natural as “You are.”
My father, who recently passed away at the age of ninety, prayed in English as written in the King James Version until he left this world.
And I can still hear my father praying.
He still prays this way today.
Because that's exactly how my father taught me to pray.
---From the "Introduction"

We have distinguished four elements in the types of petitionary prayer, but we have not explained them all.
The four elements are:
A person praying calls out to God, speaks to God, thinks of God, makes a request to God, and then expects God to fulfill it.
We will soon see that there were some changes to these four elements in the New Testament era.
But that change changed everything.
Before turning our attention to Jesus and the apostles, we need to consider that this type was common in the prayers of the Jews who lived roughly at the same time as Jesus and the apostles.
---From Chapter 2, From Jesus to the Early Church

The prayers in this psalm are not prayers that are “prayed once and then finished.”
Because it was written down, it became the prayer of the Israelites and the prayer of Jesus and the apostles.
That is why the Psalms are often called Jesus' prayer book.
Additionally, the New Testament authors refer to or allude to the Psalms more than a hundred times.
No Old Testament book is quoted more often in the New Testament than the Psalms.
And the Psalms were used as a prayer book for the church.
I have heard countless times throughout my life that it is beneficial to have the habit of reading one Psalm each day and then praying it as if it were your own prayer.

---From "Chapter 3: What is the main prayer?"

Strengthen me today with the power of God.
Reassure me with God's truth.
Let us be silent in the beauty of God.
Let us raise our voices in God's justice.
Uphold me with God's faithfulness.
Move me with God's zeal.
Let us fear God and realize the truth.
Give me abundant life through the breath of God.
---From "Chapter 5: Taking the Right Posture"

Anglicans join others in offering the prayer.
However, there is one point of emphasis in this Anglican approach that needs to be mentioned.
It is often expressed in the Latin phrase “lex orandi, lex credendi,” which roughly translates as “the rule of prayer is the rule of faith.”
It may be a bit of an awkward expression, but we learn theology through prayer, and our prayers express our theology.
Our worship is our theology, and our theology is our worship.
Evagrius of Pontus, a famous Eastern Orthodox monk, put this point more eloquently than anyone else:
“If you are a theologian, you will pray correctly.
“If you pray correctly, you are a correct theologian.”
---From "Chapter 7 Remembering God"

We believe in God, “the Creator of heaven and earth,” and we confess our faith in Him in the Creed.
But we are constantly under attack by the idolatries of our time: money, pleasure, power, fame, glory, and possessions.
We are tempted to seek satisfaction in loving something other than our relationship with God.
So when we pray using the term 'God', we need to constantly remind ourselves who is the true God and who is not.
---From Chapter 9, Talking to God

But reflection is necessary to connect our prayers with the truth about God.
When we appeal to God based on our reflections about who He is and what He does, we are thinking theologically.
Solomon did it in his prayers, David and the Old Testament prophets did it, and Jesus taught it in the Lord's Prayer.
Paul also went through a similar process of reflection in the prayer he wrote at the beginning of his letters.
“Father God, you are full of grace.
Therefore, “Have mercy on us.” Saying this to God is not an attempt to manipulate Him.
This is not a one-sided, “Give me what I want!” argument, but a claim rooted in our deepest theology.
It is difficult to say that a prayer that asks God to be consistent with His being as God is manipulation.
In effect, this plea is an assertion of God's Godhood in His being.

---From "Chapter 11: Practice: Summary"