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the aim is not to get God in on what I think he should be doing. Rather, the aim of prayer is to get us in on what God is doing, become aware of it, join it, and enjoy the fruit of participation.

This is an amazing book on prayer. It gives guidelines for praying and helps in understanding the simplicity of prayer but also the complexity of the reverence towards prayer and the love of our Father.

“When it comes to prayer, you can read all the classics, study the revival stories, and treasure up every biblical insight. You can memorize facts. Or you can live daily in relationship with God through prayer, insist on processing the extraordinary, the devastating, and all the mundanity in the middle with the eagerly listening father. Guess which method is more effective? Prayer is learned by discovery.”