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Your Prayer Life Might Be Better Than You Think

Your Prayer Life Might Be Better Than You Thinkby:
Daniel J. Brendsel

A Struggle with Prayer

“I don’t pray often. When I do, I just don’t know what to say. I know it should be more than a list of demands, but I stall out. I wish I had a better prayer life.” A young woman, Rachel (not her real name), confessed this to me many years ago. She had grown up in the church. She had wanted to pray for much of her life. But she felt a bit lost in it. For Rachel, prayer was a struggle. Indeed, having recently graduated from a Christian college and trying to figure out how to maintain a faithful Christian walk without the support and encouragement that Christian colleges afford, the struggle felt especially poignant. In response, for the first time in my life, I said, “Your prayer life may be better than you think.”In the years since I have said this, or something like it, to many who admit disappointment with their prayer life. It is, of course, not a one-size-fits-all word. But I find it to be a form of encouragement that would spotlight the many mercies and graces already being worked by God in a person’s life. It is also a strategic introduction to Christian and ecclesial identity, which, perhaps surprisingly, has everything to do with a healthy life of prayer.
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Daniel J. Brendsel is the author of Answering Speech: The Life of Prayer as Response to God.
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Daniel J. Brendsel (PhD, Wheaton College) is the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Hinckley, Minnesota. He is the author of Isaiah Saw His Glory and several articles appearing in books and journals.
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