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| The River Raisin in Monroe |
When I instruct seminary students or pastors to pray 60 minutes a day I advise them not to do church work or sermon preparation during that time. I say: "You are going to pray because you need God. Anything less than this and "prayer" is really about you instead of God."
Philip Yancey writes: "The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God. I need God more than anything I might get from God." (Yancey, Prayer, Kindle Locations 1039-1040)
This makes sense when we understand real prayer as a give-and-take relationship with God. God will give of himself to you in the prayer relationship, but he will not be used.
In a life of praying knowledge is a two-way street. I grow in personal knowledge of God, and I am searched out and known by God.
