Lord, Teach Us to Pray

Happiness, security, peace, love.  All can be found when we seek the Lord in prayer.

Thoughts on Prayer

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Blaise Pascal
• Andrew Murray

Poll on “Why People Pray”

• 76% say they are Christians
• 64% say they pray more than once a day
• 56% say they pray most often for family members
• 3.3% say they pray for strangers
• 38.3% say that the most important purpose of prayer is intimacy with God
• 41.2% say their prayers are often answered
• 1.5% say their prayers are never answered
• 73.9% say when their prayers are not answered, the most important reason is that they did not fit into God’s plan
• 5.1% say they pray most often in a house of worship
• 79.4% say they pray most often at home

How to Pray

• Luke 11:1
• Luke 11:2-4
• Luke 11:5-8