{"id":4980,"date":"2023-11-03T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4980"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","slug":"teach-me-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4980","title":{"rendered":"TEACH ME TO PRAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are so many great books out there with useful teaching about prayer, but if you are looking to grow in your prayer life, today I offer a simple but life-changing approach to prayer that has impacted my spiritual life immensely over the last 4 months. (And I am just getting started!)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it is straightforward: If you truly want to learn how to pray, do what the disciples did and ask Jesus Himself to teach you. (Luke 11:1-4)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So each day I make this request of God: \u201cLord, teach me to pray\u201d. And then I listen as closely as I can.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It sounds too simple to be useful, but this practice has become a check on:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>My sincerity: Do I REALLY want to grow in prayer?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>My ignorance: There ARE ever deeper levels of prayer to explore!<\/li>\n\n\n<li>My dependence: Prayer doesn\u2019t come naturally &#8211; I NEED guidance.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to try this for yourself, here\u2019s a practical tip: To make \u201cLord, teach me to pray\u201d part of your daily routine, set a reminder on your phone or use a reliable cue like the moment your feet hit the floor first thing in the morning or when you pour a cup of coffee or brush your teeth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if you DO choose to take this as a daily habit yourself, I would love to hear your experience with it \u2026 a few weeks or months or years from now!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is so much to learn about prayer! Thankfully, Jesus is a patient teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One day at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many great books out there with useful teaching about prayer, but if you are looking to grow in your prayer life, today I offer a simple but life-changing approach to prayer that has impacted my spiritual life immensely over the last 4 months. (And I am just getting started!) And it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}