The Purpose of Prayer

Why did Christ command that we should pray? Isn’t God all-knowing? If He knows everything, is our prayer telling Him anything?

Sometimes, it seems like when we pray we truly believe that we are telling God something that He doesn’t already know.

Glory of Christ

Let me make this as clear as possible from the very beginning. Your salvation is not about you. My salvation is not about me. Our lives are not about us. Everything is to the glory of Jesus Christ.

In almost everything I see that is “Christian”, in almost all of the articles I read (the “popular” ones anyway), in almost all of the sermons I hear, in far too many of the conversations I have, the topic revolves around us. Our salvation, our hope, our desires, our prayers, our sins, our….the list goes on and on. And yes, Christ is normally in the conversation somewhere, but He is not the central theme of it.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:  ⁴According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:  ⁵Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,  ⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. – Ephesians 1:3-6