Someone asked me recently if it were possible to have some teaching specifically on prayer. I have since asked myself some pertinent questions in regard to my own views on prayer. Simple questions like, “What motivates me to pray? How do I think God interacts with my prayers? Why is it that prayer is often a last resort?”

How true it is that often what we feel can easily become the force, road map, and the guidance system that directs our actions and stance on life and even church matters. There is nothing wrong with ‘feelings’ - God gave us this emotion to glorify him. But the problem is our emotional capacity has also suffered in the fallout of Adam’s sin. This means that even our feelings, opinions and ideas in and of themselves, cannot be trusted.