Prayer

Prayer is something that I have always grown up doing because of living in a Christian environment, always saying a prayer in the morning, at meals, and before bed.  I never thought of prayer being something that you learn as Foster says, "real prayer is something that you learn".  Reading what Foster did with putting together all of the Scripture passages that refer to prayer and then reading them all together was something that was very intriguing to me, something that I wanted to do but never did.

For the prayer I decided to redo having Scripture on me at all times like I did with meditation but chose the two verses that were in the workbook to read, John 15:7 "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you." and James 4:3 "You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions."  Both these passages struck me when I read them because they convicted me with my way of thinking.  I looked both of them up in different versions to see the differences that there were and all of them were very thought provoking.  I loved having Scripture on me at all times because I felt that I was always able to conquer anything with God's word with me.  This activity is something that I plan on doing more in the future.