defines our worship, deepens our life and develops our faith. Prayer is vital to our true fulfilment as human beings. We are created to find our deepest fulfilment in God. For we are first and foremost spiritual beings who need God. It is not God who needs our prayers, but we who need God – not as the cosmic answer to our questions nor the celestial solution to our problems, but for who He is and for who we are when we are in Him. Jesus understood this; that is why prayer was pre-eminent in His life and ministry. RATHER THAN merely satisfying our spiritual appetite, prayer actually enlarges
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