What Is Prayer, Really? : comparemela.com

29 Dec
The Reformer Martin Luther said, “All teachers of Scripture concludes that the essence and the nature of prayer are nothing else than the raising of the heart, it follows that everything which is not a lifting up of the heart is not prayer.” At the consideration of this teaching, falsehood in prayer falls away. Banished is the attempt to impress the living God with our words, or to control Him with demands.
Following from Luther’s statement above of a Scriptural teaching on prayer, I make two observations: prayer requires honesty and upward direction.
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