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Let me thank you for all the articles and publications. All of the things I read in The Good News are by far the most practical and easy to grasp-even if I don't necessarily agree sometimes. Please forward a thank you to Gary Petty for his article "A Lesson in Prayer."
Despite praying daily and some awesome prayer moments, the article allowed me to regroup and refocus how I pray and develop my conversations with God. So many people, including myself, have overlooked Jesus' intent with the "model prayer." If we only thought about what we are reciting when we are speaking the Lord's Prayer. I've challenged myself to pray in conversational tone using this model prayer as a pattern.
-G.S., Baldwinsville, New York
The article in which you break down each portion of the Lord's Prayer was quite a revelation to me. Until I read this article, I had never realized its importance. It made me understand how true it was. Shortly afterwards I made peace with some family members. Previously I certainly was doing the devil's bidding without realizing it. Thank you for helping me to understand better what the Lord expects of me. Now when I say the Lord's Prayer, I no longer will just be mouthing words. Instead my heart will be speaking.
-M.D., Ocala, Florida
Thank you for this wonderfully insightful article about prayer. I confess I am the "drone" you refer to. I must have recited this prayer many times. I just can't believe I never figured out this was an actual outline or model for prayer. How simple and how wonderful-it just makes perfect sense.
Sometimes in prayer I stumble over my thoughts, repeat things over and over, but now I feel like one of those blind men in the Gospel accounts who asked to be healed-and was. I was blind; now I see. The best part about it is now I can teach my kids how to properly pray so they don't stumble like I did.
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