DAY 5
Prayer is abandoning my righteousness, admitting my need for forgiveness, and resting in the grace of the cross of Jesus Christ.
P rayer is one of God’s sweetest gifts to us. The command to pray is itself a sweet and loving gift from a gracious and car- ing heavenly Father. Prayer is where God welcomes his children to talk with him, commune with him, abide with him. It’s that holy place where the deepest of worship, the deepest of needs, and the most honest of confessions all intersect with the grandeur and glory of divine love. Prayer only works when worshipers are invited into the presence of one worthy of their worship. It only works when the one being prayed to is amazingly patient, boundless in love, constantly forgiving, and sovereign in power. For prayer to be prayer, God has to be God; without this, prayer is an act of religious futility. But God is God, and he has invited us to bring our true selves to him. It’s not an invitation to bring him a catalog of our
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